East Davidson High School in Thomasville, North Carolina, ended its varsity soccer season on October 28 after a video showing players on a team bus responding to a racial slur spread on social media. The team was 17-4, and the state playoffs begin November 2.
Mary Johnson
A security officer at Millbrook Magnet High School in Raleigh went into labor at school on Thursday morning, and Principal Monica Sawyer and bookkeeper K'Mani Freeman helped deliver a baby girl within minutes. Mom and baby are doing well, the principal said.
Mary Johnson
North Carolina students need 22 credits to graduate, and this year's freshmen are the first who must pass a computer science course. State law also bars local school boards from requiring extra credits. Here are the rules for each class, course by course.
Arthur Chen
House Bill 959 requires every North Carolina public and charter school to bar phone use during instructional time. An Asheville charter school that adopted the same rule two years early says parents report happier, more talkative kids, and that a few students are gaming the system with decoy phones.
Kate Carter
Mills Park Elementary in Cary posts the highest test proficiency of any public elementary school in Wake County, home to Raleigh. The strongest schools cluster in the Cary, Apex, and Morrisville tech corridor, and the scores track neighborhood income closely. Here are the top 15.
Mary Johnson
Granville County took student take-home laptops away for grades 3 through 8, blocked YouTube, and set two tech-free days a week. Its own web monitoring showed why, and a year in, the results are messier and more interesting than a simple win. Other North Carolina districts are following.
Mary Johnson
North Carolina rewrote four of its teacher licensure rules in the July 2026 state budget, including the test scores once required just to get into a teacher prep program. Here's what you actually need to teach in NC public schools now: the degree, the program, the exams, and which license you hold along the way.
Mary Johnson
North Carolina released its 2025 school report cards. ACT scores jumped 13% and more students took AP courses, but the letter grades tell a harder story: more schools landed a D or F than an A or B. Here is the statewide breakdown, plus a look at the Triad.
Mary Johnson
The new state budget quietly rewrote how North Carolina licenses teachers: no more admissions tests for teacher-prep programs, more time for new teachers to pass exams, and an easier path for out-of-state hires. Here is what each change actually does.
Mary Johnson
Authorities say a homemade device that court records call a plasma cannon was used to burn a bush and damage a door at Ben L. Smith High School in Greensboro before a group broke in. Two 18-year-olds face felony charges; a juvenile was released to a parent.
Mary Johnson
A former counselor at Orange High School in Hillsborough, North Carolina, turned herself in and was charged with sex crimes involving students, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office. She has not entered a plea.
Mary Johnson
Wake County, North Carolina runs one of the 15 largest school systems in the country, and it does it as a single countywide district. Here is what the enrollment, demographics, and test-score data say about Raleigh and its fast-growing western suburbs.
Kate Carter
Across the Charlotte metro, public high school performance swings from the low 40s to the high 80s on North Carolina’s grade-level proficiency measure, and the strongest results sit in the Union County and north-Mecklenburg suburbs rather than inside the city. Here is how the suburbs rank.
Kate Carter
North Carolina has 2,768 public schools across 100 counties, and the variation in school quality between those counties is significant enough that where you live in the state shapes your child's educational experience as much as any other factor. The state average for reading proficiency in 2024-25 sits at 50.9 percent meeting or exceeding grade level, which means roughly half of North Carolina students are performing below grade level on state assessments. But...
Mary Johnson
