Liz Schlemmer

The Wake County school board passed a budget that includes cuts to assistant principals, literacy coaches, tutors, and vacant positions. The county plans to raise property taxes to fund its budget.

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City school board is now considering closing one elementary, with three under consideration: Ephesus, Glenwood or Seawell.

The county and schools are facing higher costs for employee benefits, insurance, electricity, food services, and fuel for buses and county vehicles.

Image of "Kids over Corporations" teacher rally, May 1, 2026.

Republican lawmakers are advancing a bill to take away the governor's appointments to the board, and instead make them elected positions.

The North Carolina House overrode Gov. Stein's veto of a bill to opt NC into a federal tax credit designed to support private school vouchers.

Eliot Umbarger (right) will soon graduate from Duke University with a master's degree in education and begin teaching in Durham Public Schools this fall. His mother, Jenny Umbarger (left) is in her 29th year of teaching at DPS. They're concerned about the salary compression in the new teacher pay scale.

School districts nationwide are facing decisions about closing schools as the birth rate continues to drop. More on how it's playing out in Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools.

North Carolina's current school calendar law pushes the start of the school year nearly into September.

File photo of a class at Tanglewood Elementary School in Lumberton, N.C.