Nearly half of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education will be new next year, after challengers unseated two incumbents in Tuesday’s elections.
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For the first time in years, more child care programs in North Carolina closed than opened this August.
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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.
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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.
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Two of the six seats up for grabs in this year’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools board elections are guaranteed to have new faces.
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WUNC's series "From Politics to Paychecks" explores how political decisions are affecting NC educators' finances. This teacher is paring back because the state offers no raise to veteran teachers.
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WUNC's series "From Politics to Paychecks" shows how political decisions, including a delayed state budget, are affecting NC educators' finances and families.
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education officially passed a new policy governing how staff and students should use artificial intelligence.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The order is to be implemented at school libraries on military bases in Kentucky, Virginia, Italy and Japan. Students and their families claimed their First Amendment rights had been violated when officials removed the books to comply with President Trump's executive orders.
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is warning parents that schools are not closed on Tuesday, Oct. 21, despite a viral fake post claiming they were closed.