West Charlotte High School was seen as a model for how schools could integrate in the 1970s. But in the 1990s, a federal judge ruled that bussing was no longer needed. Ella Dennis, historian for the school's Alumni Association, Rev. Joe B. Martin, and student government president Malachi Thompson join us.
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Chris Unger/Getty ImagesHarrison Butker of the Kansas City Chiefs urged female graduates to embrace the title of "homemaker" in a controversial commencement speech. The NFL says he was speaking "in his personal capacity." -
Peyton Sickles/For WUNCUNC-Chapel Hill to 'take action' against protesters who participated in recent campus demonstrationsUNC-Chapel Hill has already suspended about 15 students following a pro-Palestinian encampment late last month. Interim Chancellor Lee Roberts said the university is continuing to review other demonstrations and plans to “take action” against more protesters.
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UNC Charlotte Police, with support from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police, dispersed on-campus protesters supporting Gaza on Tuesday. A letter from the chancellor said the situation was resolved peacefully, with one person detained. -
The public got a look at the strategies Superintendent Crystal Hill plans to use to meet the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board’s five-year goals for academic improvement last week. Watching this plan evolve has mostly served as a reminder of the extraordinary complexity of public education. -
North Carolina's Charter Schools Review Board voted unanimously Monday to stop public funding for a financially troubled Kinston school. It's the second school the board has voted to close this spring. -
Nearly 800 faculty and staff members at UNC-Chapel Hill have signed an open letter calling on administrators to lift punishments on student protesters who participated in the pro-Palestinian demonstrations last week. -
The CEO of an online educational gaming company donated more than $40,000 combined to the North Carolina Republican Party. Around the same time, his company, Plasma Games, received $6.3 million in state funding to put its science platform in schools. Now, state education officials say more than half the funds are going unused by schools. -
Columbia cancels its main ceremony, while Emory's events will now take place in the suburbs outside its Atlanta campus. The moves come after weeks of protests against the war in Gaza. -
Students in the U.K., France and Mexico have sought to erect what many of them call "solidarity encampments," prompting a variety of responses from university authorities and local law enforcement. -
The Cumberland County School District held its 5th annual feather ceremony for graduating Native American high school seniors. -
A student studying conservation biology at Queens University shares the small wonders he observed studying the wildlife on campus via motion-triggered cameras. -
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools will hold a town hall in Spanish to connect with a growing segment of the community.
