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North Carolina education officials say it could cost $85 million to install carbon monoxide detectors in older schools and test all schools for radon gas. The General Assembly requested the estimates.

A potentially groundbreaking report on exactly how much North Carolina’s students fell behind during the disrupted 2020-21 school year will be presented to the state Board of Education this week.

North Carolina's $50 million bid to boost reading skills gets under way as more than 10,000 teachers begin a time-consuming, two-year program in the science of reading.

On Thursday, the North Carolina Board of Education narrowly approved guidance on teaching history and civics in public schools. The latest documents include details on how to incorporate new perspectives on racism and multiculturalism.

North Carolina health officials said Thursday they want to make rapid testing for COVID-19 a part of the safety plan for public and private schools, and they say they’ve got money to make it happen.

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.

The state Board of Education voted 7-5 Thursday to approve controversial new standards for teaching history and social studies in North Carolina’s public schools. The vote came after hours of board debate over the past two weeks and thousands of comments from the public.

Members of the state Board of Education say they’ve gotten thousands of emails about proposed new social studies standards. The debate over how to address racism, oppression and gender identity is clearly striking a nerve.

North Carolina education officials met this week to put finishing touches on a new social studies and history curriculum for public schools. Instead they clashed over deep divides on race, gender identity and politics.

North Carolina health officials say they're encouraged that the first three weeks of school haven't brought a surge in COVID-19 cases among children under…