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WUNC
The committee instead voted to increase tuition for out-of-state students to make up for rising costs.
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Winston-Salem State University
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Mitchell Northam/WUNCLee Roberts called the "preferential treatment" proposal a clear infringement on academic freedom. -
James Farrell / WFAEAn anonymous post encouraged teachers statewide to call out of work sick Friday and Monday to protest low school funding and the lack of a state budget, which has left teachers without raises even as state health insurance premiums rise.
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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. -
Thursday night, the school board approved the $1,000 supplement amid rumblings of teacher protests. -
School districts across the state are bracing for the possibility of teachers calling out sick to protest school funding Friday. -
State education officials announced Wednesday that North Carolina students posted record gains in both participation and performance on Advanced Placement exams last school year. -
More than 2,500 children have lost their Head Start programs in the state amid the shutdown so far. -
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.
