There is perhaps no clearer sign that summer is drawing to a close than the arrival of school supplies in big box stores and school supply drives in most counties. On Wednesday, Gov. Josh Stein delivered school supplies collected over the summer to W.M. Irvin Elementary School in Concord. It’s the eighth year the governor’s […]

The spending plan includes more funding for North Carolina’s Principal Recruitment Supplement Program.

Just weeks after the North Carolina General Assembly passed a $34 billion state budget that included 8% average raises for teachers over two years, the state’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Public Education said it’s not enough. The bipartisan panel, assembled in March by Democratic N.C. Gov. Josh Stein, Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, […]