Seven schools in North Carolina’s Beaufort County will receive funding to deliver new magnet programs in the areas of pre-med, network engineering, and cybersecurity thanks to a grant from the federal Education Department. The grant program is focused on expanding outreach to minority students and...
In the fourth of a five-part series, Allison Redden and Kayla M. Siler take a look back at the last 10 years of North Carolina’s education system to see how investments have helped shape the state’s educational landscape and to what extent these investments have...
The Clay County Board of Education recently announced good news—Clay County High School “was named in North Carolina’s Top 10 for graduation rate at 93.6 percent, up from 86 percent.” Meanwhile, at Hayesville Elementary School, “reading proficiency levels met or exceeded the state average across...
Education officials in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools see some signs of improvement in a racial achievement gap, but there is still work to be done, according to Matt Goad for News & Observer. According to accountability results, the district met just under a quarter of...
Last week, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction released data “on the interim progress that North Carolina schools are making to reach long-term, 10-year goals, a new reporting requirement under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act.” For this, the second year of interim goals,...
Henry Kronk writes in eLearningInside News in the context U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ recent approval of North Carolina’s ESSA plan that, as part of its, plan, the state has joined many others “by encouraging educators to test personalized and adaptive learning in the...
Kate Stringer reports in The 74 that this summer, North Carolina’s Guilford County School District “is making a large investment to combat summer slide—the loss of academic gains that can occur over idle summer months.” More than “20,000 students in the 49 Title I elementary schools will...
According to the Charlotte Observer, North Carolina is struggling to convince federal education officials that “the state can provide some of its most vulnerable students with access to high-quality teachers.” The article explains that the U.S. Dept. of Education had “a lot of questions before...
The Dept. of Education sent letters to Alabama, Alaska, Kansas, Montana, North Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyoming enumerating federal feedback on their ESSA plans.
Approved State Plans Alabama: Final Plan Approved (5/7/18) Alaska: Final Plan Approved (5/16/18) Arizona: Final Plan Approved (9/6/17) Arkansas: Final Plan Approved (1/16/18) Colorado: Final Plan Approved (5/7/18) Connecticut: Final Plan Approved (8/15/17) Delaware: Final Plan Approved (8/2/17) District of Columbia: Final Plan Approved (8/28/17) Georgia:...
