Schools

On Nov. 15, members of the Retire the Red Raider coalition and the Metrolina Native American Association held a demonstration in Gaston County to call for South Point High to retire its Red Raider mascot. We hear from people who want the mascot gone and learn why such mascots can be harmful to Native Americans.

It will be Duke vs. Wisconsin in college basketball’s Division I championship game Monday night in Indianapolis. Duke beat Michigan State, 81 to 61, in…

Union County and its school board have tentatively agreed on a budget this year. That may not seem like a big deal, but last year a budget dispute between…

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board approved plans Tuesday night to partner with a non-profit to run a pre-k- 8 school on the city’s west side. It’s in…

Parents, teachers, and students may be in for a rude awakening next month when they get the scores of standardized tests taken at the end of last year.…

Union County Schools and Union County are having their day in court due to a budget dispute. It’s actually been much more than a day. To be exact, the two…

Schools often try to get parents more involved in their children’s education. Mothers tend to be the ones who heed the call. For whatever reason, you…

North Carolina school districts are using a new software called PowerSchool to do everything from scheduling classes to tracking students' grades. But…

Students at nine schools in west Charlotte got special escorts to their classrooms today. Fathers, grandfathers and uncles dropped children off at school…

As technology becomes fully integrated in classrooms, students aren’t the only ones learning. Teachers must operate computers, a variety of applications…