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Six of nine seats on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education were up for grabs Tuesday. And the voters have spoken, choosing four new members.
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North Carolina Department of Public InstructionState education officials announced Wednesday that North Carolina students posted record gains in both participation and performance on Advanced Placement exams last school year. -
Lindsey Wasson/APMore than 2,500 children have lost their Head Start programs in the state amid the shutdown so far.
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Nearly half of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education will be new next year, after challengers unseated two incumbents in Tuesday’s elections. -
Shamaiye Haynes and Anna London will be the next representatives for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education’s District 2 and 6 seats, both of which were open after the incumbents decided not to run again this year. -
Charlitta Hatch, the chief data and analytics officer for the city of Charlotte, has won the race for the District 1 seat on the CMS Board of Education, unseating incumbent Melissa Easley. -
For the first time in years, more child care programs in North Carolina closed than opened this August. -
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. -
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. -
Two of the six seats up for grabs in this year’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools board elections are guaranteed to have new faces. -
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. -
WUNC's series "From Politics to Paychecks" shows how political decisions, including a delayed state budget, are affecting NC educators' finances and families. -
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education officially passed a new policy governing how staff and students should use artificial intelligence.
