During a visit to Winter Park Elementary School in Wilmington Thursday, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper pushed for higher investment in education and pay raises for teachers as part of his proposed budget for next year.
Classical Charter Schools claims in a statement that the ACLU is trying “’to drive a wedge’ between school families and administrators ‘with trumped-up charges’ of discrimination and civil-rights violations.”
Smart Start of New Hanover County honored several people at the organization’s Breakfast of Champions for their work in ‘going above and beyond in improving children’s lives’.
Numerous rape cases have been reported in the last two weeks (six since Feb. 20) on UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus, leaving some among the campus community worried for their safety.
CFCC plans to expand electrical apprenticeship courses to another 99 juniors and seniors at Heidi Trask, Pender, New Hanover and Ashley high schools thanks to $900,000 in Golden LEAF funding.
The current games being played by clubs include Rocket League, a team game where players use cars to hit a giant ball into a soccer-esque goal, and Brawlhalla, a team-based game where players fight as cartoony characters.
The board unanimously agreed to send its policy on its public comment session back to the policy committee to consider different ways to conduct the call to audience section of its meeting.
The bill states that “instruction on gender identity, sexual activity, or sexuality shall not be included in the curriculum provided in grades kindergarten through fourth grade.”
As the position of a Cape Fear Community College Board of Trustees member may be on the line, a former member says it’s President Jim Morton who should leave the board, instead.
Phil Cordeiro will be sworn in later this month to fill the vacant position on the Pender County Board of Education after being selected by the Pender County GOP.
The University of North Carolina Board of Governors decided to keep tuitions frozen at all UNC universities for NC residents on Thursday, Feb. 23, marking the seventh year of flat tuition.
New Hanover County Schools announced Tuesday they’ll be using monitoring software Lightspeed Systems to monitor activity on all district-owned laptop and desktop computers.
Columbus County Schools is letting the community know about an active shooter simulation set to take place on Feb. 25 at East Columbus Junior/Senior High School.
Novant Health hosted the "It Takes a Village" Youth Summit on Saturday, Feb. 18. The event offered students an opportunity to connect with doctors and learn more about potential careers in health care.
At its Feb. 14 meeting, the Pender County Board of Education voted unanimously to instruct the removal of over 40 books from Pender County School media centers while the books undergo review.
The Pender County Board of Education unanimously approved a calendar for the 2023-24 school year to end in December at its meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 14.
Opponents of a controversial policy change worry banning transgender athletes from participating on some sports teams could trigger discrimination lawsuits.
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - New Hanover County’s Board of Education voted in favor of changing a policy to require students to play sports according to the gender on their birth certificate rather than the gender with which they identify.
The Johnson Pre-K Center accepted 300 “seedling” devices as part of a program to assess and track the progress of students in their early years of education.
William Gardner and Isabella Cox, teens from Wilmington, launched Women Life Freedom ILM in an effort to spread awareness about violence against women and girls living in Iran.
Lawmakers are pushing to give parents more control over their child’s education but opponents of the bill are concerned that it would hurt some students in the state’s public school system.
The New Hanover County Board of Education approved a calendar which would make the fall semester of the 2023-24 school year end in January with a 5-2 vote on Tuesday, Jan. 31.
The YWCA Lower Cape Fear announced that they have received an in-kind gift of 100 mobile hotspots from U.S. Cellular and plan to distribute them to school-aged children in the area.
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