School board

North Carolina is working on a major overhaul of its math standards that state officials hope will better connect what students learn in the classroom to the real world.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has signed a new contract with an education consulting firm whose $500,000 contract with the district prompted questions from some school board members last year.

We sit down with superintendents of Iredell-Statesville, Cabarrus County and Union County schools for back-to-school season. These three districts face their own changes and challenges this year. We’ll discuss everything from budgets and funding to student safety and closing the learning gap.

The conservative group Moms for Liberty took school boards by storm during the coronavirus pandemic. But most candidates the group backed in this year's local North Carolina school board races lost.

I learned something from my colleague Steve Harrison last week: Partisan school board elections are more common in North Carolina than partisan city council races. Based on my experience in Mecklenburg County I had assumed the opposite was true.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board agreed in November to create a position for a new, independent officer to monitor the superintendent and other top…

On Tuesday, Mary McCray, a retired teacher, will hand off the gavel after seven years as chair of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board.It's been an…

Figuring out what is the best time for schools to open is something parents and schools officials don’t always agree on. Many studies show that later…

CMS now has a student assignment plan after a 6 1/2 hour meeting that was often contentious.The closest votes involved changes to k-8 schools on the…

The CMS school board will have one new member. Elyse Dashew will join incumbents Ericka Ellis-Stewart and Mary McCray on the board as an at-large member.…