N.C. K-12 Education News and In-Depth Reporting

After Notable Wins, Can NCAE Make the Case for Public Education?

Attendees of the North Carolina Association of Educators Summer Leaders Conference write down their ideas. (Angelica Edwards for The Assembly)

Educators in Durham and Guilford counties last year. Can teachers leverage those wins into statewide gains?

The Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway runs alongside Arsenal Park, where the ruins of the Fayetteville Arsenal rest. (Andrew Craft for The Assembly)

The N.C. History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction looks to tell “the truth with all its blemishes.”

Carson Bridges learned about the science of reading after she became a teacher. (Photo by Mike Belleme for The Assembly)

Nearly everyone backs the latest research on teaching kids to read. Why did it take eight years to update curriculum?

Materials on display at a Moms for Liberty meeting in 2023. (Credit: Zach Roberts/NurPhoto via AP)

The “parental rights” group’s North Carolina chapters endorsed seven school board candidates this election cycle. Only two won.

Pre-K students participating in Books On Break. (Photo by Doug Jackson)

A collective effort supported by $150 million in private investment and philanthropic organizations aims to transform early childhood education.

Lisa Williams recently left her job in New Hanover County Schools. (Johanna F. Still for The Assembly)

I taught in public schools for more than two decades, but I just quit—and you need to know why.

Michele Morrow at a Moore County Republican Men’s Club luncheon. (Julia Wall for The Assembly)

Her primary win took many by surprise, but the state superintendent candidate is following Steve Bannon’s playbook.

Kristen Evans, a student at the Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf, talks to Director Michele Handley. (Cornell Watson for The Assembly)

North Carolina long pushed deaf children toward mainstream schools. Now lawmakers want to give parents more choices.

Photo illustration by The Assembly / Images by Kenny

Lawmakers have awarded $4.5 million to a literacy program that does not align with current educational standards.

Ruby Steele instructs students at Essie Academy in Salisbury. (Jon C. Lakey for The Assembly)

Lawmakers plan to vastly expand Opportunity Scholarships, but questions about oversight, accountability, and what it will cost public schools remain.