James Farrell
Education ReporterJames Farrell is WFAE's education reporter. Farrell has served as a reporter for several print publications in Buffalo, N.Y., and weekend anchor at WBFO Buffalo Toronto Public Media. Most recently he has served as a breaking news reporter for Forbes.
Farrell has an undergraduate degree from Boston College and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of Journalism.
-
Students at Hidden Valley Elementary School celebrated Halloween with members of the community, who spent the day going classroom-to-classroom, reading books for the school’s inaugural Fall Read-A-Thon. -
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is trying to increase the percentage of students scoring at the highest level on the state Math I exam. But they’ve got a lot of ground to make up, especially among high schoolers. -
Two of the six seats up for grabs in this year’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools board elections are guaranteed to have new faces. -
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education officially passed a new policy governing how staff and students should use artificial intelligence. -
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board District 1 race has become one to watch, with an incumbent who’s at times ruffled feathers facing both a well-funded challenger and a conservative pushing change. -
Hundreds of Union County Public Schools teachers have called in sick and marched to protest what they consider an insufficient increase to Union County’s teacher salary supplement. -
Union County Schools’ finance committee is officially proposing a $1,000 increase to the district’s local teacher pay supplement. It will come up for a vote at the UCPS Board of Education on Nov. 6. -
Last month, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools said law enforcement had been involved after somebody painted messages in support of assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk on the Ardrey Kell High School spirit rock. -
The lottery for students to choose magnet programs opened on Monday, and Superintendent Crystal Hill said families submitted more than 1,200 applications on the first day.
-
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education is poised to vote soon on a new district policy on artificial intelligence. At Tuesday’s meeting, the board heard some feedback on the recently proposed policy.
