Catherine Truitt

North Carolina Superintendent Catherine Truitt told state legislators Monday that neither the state’s standardized exams nor the school performance grades that are based on them do a good job of measuring school quality. A committee is studying the future of education.

The pandemic created a host of immediate challenges, but the key to long-term economic recovery is teaching North Carolina’s children to read. That’s according to state lawmakers who recently passed a new “science of reading” bill and a group of CEOs who gathered recently to support that strategy. The unlikely source of inspiration? Mississippi.

Top North Carolina education officials on Thursday called for all of the state's 115 school districts to make available at least partial in-person instruction by the end of the month to any of the system's 1.5 million students who want it.