EDITOR’S NOTE: Public Ed Works shares this through a collaboration with our friends at the Public School Forum of North Carolina. Please note the statistics below on how many private ...

RALEIGH (May 10, 2024) – A new statewide campaign from a nonprofit group aims to build support for state legislators to significantly raise teacher pay in North Carolina. “North Carolinians value ...

RALEIGH (May 8, 2024) – The good news: North Carolina is improving its pitiful starting pay for public school teachers. The bad news: North Carolina has still slipped compared to other ...

RALEIGH (May 2, 2024) – In a state where 10,000+ teachers – 11.5% – left its public schools in 2023,1 Gov. Roy Cooper proposed a budget last week to rebuild ...

RALEIGH (April 25, 2024) – The NC General Assembly is back this week for its so-called “short” session to make adjustments for the second year of the state budget. And boy, ...

RALEIGH (April 18, 2024) – Nearly 8 in 10 North Carolina voters support better pay raises for the state’s public school teachers next year. In a statewide poll conducted for Public ...

RALEIGH (April 10, 2024) – Sara Scanlon feels “steadily increasing pressure” to increase graduation rates among her students – whether they’ve mastered the material or not. In our latest installment of ...

CONCORD (April 4, 2024) – To Natalia Mejia, teachers should be treated like the professionals they are. In the latest installment of our Teachers Talk series, the ESL teacher at C.C. ...

RALEIGH (March 28, 2024) – A state House committee acknowledged this week what was painfully clear even two years ago: North Carolina’s pay for teachers hasn’t kept up with inflation. The ...

KERNERSVILLE (March 6, 2024) – Stephanie Wallace is one masterful teacher. Wallace, who teaches English and Teacher Cadets at East Forsyth High School, has an amazing 180 former students who are ...