3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (534+ words) The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has revived a former North Carolina prisoner’s lawsuit challenging the way she was treated behind bars during and after her pregnancy in 2019. The unanimous decision Thursday reversed a trial court’s ruling. “Edwards was induced…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (278+ words) State Rep. Jennifer Balkcom, R-Henderson, who is running on the Republican ticket against Democrat Jamie Ager for North Carolina’s 11th Congressional district, released her first campaign ad, touting her background and her work ethic. In the ad, Balkcom touts her background…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (524+ words) North Carolina’s charter school association has brought in a consulting firm to write quality standards for the state’s virtual charter academies, schools the state charter office said last month none of its staff has experience evaluating. Nineteen remote charter academies…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1283+ words) Listen to this story (12 minutes) All five living former North Carolina governors back current Gov. Josh Stein in his battle with top legislative leaders at the state Supreme Court. Democrats Mike Easley, Bev Perdue, and Roy Cooper joined Republicans Jim…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (583+ words) More than 3.7 million North Carolina taxpayers will be eligible to claim a new federal tax credit for donations to K-12 scholarship organizations when the program launches in 2027, according to a state-by-state analysis released Sept. 9 by the American Federation for Children (AFC)…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (710+ words) North Carolina’s school report cards came back last week with the best marks in years, but the State Board of Education is still working on a plan to change how those report cards are graded. The share of schools earning…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (362+ words) Greensboro, Asheboro, and Reidsville are asking the state’s second-highest court to reverse a ruling involving state regulation of a chemical called 1,4-dioxane. The cities argue that state environmental regulators failed to follow the proper procedure before putting new rules in…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (615+ words) A Wake County family nurse practitioner is challenging a North Carolina law that requires her to contract with a physician before she can work in the state. She filed suit Wednesday against the leaders of the state medical and nursing…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (787+ words) Public school systems in other states are already lining up to tap into funds from the Trump administration’s new federal school choice tax credit. But in North Carolina, districts could be left behind unless they begin to act soon. The…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1070+ words) Members of the North Carolina Blue Ribbon Commission on Public Education pushed back Aug. 31 on a draft set of recommendations they said was too vague to act on, demanding a clearer teacher-pay proposal and leaving the panel’s planned September vote…...