North Carolina civil rights leaders are threatening to sue the state over a recently passed law that allows mostly white communities near Charlotte to create their own charter schools and a potential new voter ID law....
The Board of Education for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools approved a resolution last Thursday to oppose the nomination of Betsy DeVos for secretary of education. The resolution claims that DeVos has “a track record that is...
The Orange County Board of Commissioners held a retreat last weekend at Rigmore House in Chapel Hill to discuss local policies as they relate to the current political climate. Mark Dorosin, the chair of the board, said the...
The North Carolina General Assembly has wrapped up one of the longest legislative sessions in recent memory. Municipalities’ ability to make decisions specifically impacting their communities, public school funding being...
Lawyers wrapped up their arguments Tuesday in a hearing to determine whether a Carrboro charter school will remain open. But students and teachers at PACE Academy won’t know for several weeks whether they will be able to return...
A hearing that will decide whether PACE Academy will keep its charter will go longer than expected. Attorneys for PACE Academy Charter School and the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) were scheduled to wrap up their...
PACE Academy will fight in court Tuesday to keep its doors open. Teachers, students, parents and alumni of PACE Academy gathered at the State Board of Education building Monday morning. They were there to protest the...
With the opening of the new charter school, The Expedition School, in Hillsborough, one particular member of the Board of Education is voicing his concern.