Liz Schlemmer
Liz Schlemmer is WUNC's Education Policy Reporter, a fellowship position supported by the A.J. Fletcher Foundation. She has an M.A. from the UNC Chapel Hill School of Media & Journalism and a B.A. in history and anthropology from Indiana University.
She has previously served as a temporary Morning Edition producer and intern at WUNC and as a news intern at St. Louis Public Radio. Liz is originally from Indiana, where she grew up with a large extended family of educators.
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Two of the big buzzwords in education lately are "learning loss" and "teacher shortages." Since the pandemic began, the General Assembly has invested resources into a new nonprofit that could help address both those issues.
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Educators will see more money in their paychecks this year from a combination of raises, bonuses and a new county-based supplement for teacher pay.
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Teacher and staff vacancies continue to plague public schools late into the fall semester, and some of the hardest positions to fill are in special education. Every qualified teacher or aid can make a significant difference for a child with disabilities.
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"This left us speechless," said Catawba College's President David Nelson. "It left us wondering if we were reading numbers correctly."
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State health officials compared the rate of COVID-19 clusters in North Carolina schools without mask mandates to those that require masks.
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Schools in the state are facing severe staffing shortages across-the-board. That's putting more on the shoulders of educators who are still on the job.
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Duke announced masking will now be required outdoors, as well as indoors. Masks will also be required at all Duke athletic events, regardless of vaccination status.
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A coalition of groups representing Black students, faculty, and staff met Wednesday to outline their priorities to create a safer, more equitable campus.
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The UNC Chapel Hill student body president is petitioning for a special meeting of the university's board of trustees to vote on tenure for journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.
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Protesters stood on the sidelines of a trustees meeting Thursday to oppose the denial of tenure for the high-profile hire at UNC's journalism school despite a faculty recommendation.