North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper met with teachers and district staff at College Road Early Childhood Center Thursday to discuss funding for public schools.
The final day of school on the traditional calendar is May 26. Topsail High School graduates will have eight tickets for the ceremony, but no other schools in the district will require tickets for ceremonies.
Local, national and international experts are set to visit the University of North Carolina Wilmington for the Global Marine Science Summit on May 17-19.
A week after authorities arrested an Ashley High School student who reportedly had a loaded gun in his backpack, the New Hanover County Board of Education planned to hear about school safety.
Board members will also hear a presentation on school disciplinary procedures, including data that African American students are suspended six times more often than their peers in New Hanover County.
A group of parents and neighbors rallied outside Classical Charter Schools of Leland Thursday, calling on the board of trustees to reconsider the school’s grooming policy for students.
Email records show that one of the ‘smoking guns’ used against Funderburk is less conclusive than the definitive way it was presented during the removal hearing last month.
Finding a place for children to learn and grow before they are old enough for kindergarten can be difficult, with many local early child care centers at capacity.
“We’re talking about how we fund education, the largest piece of the pie of our state budget in North Carolina as a whole. This isn’t going to be a bill that just kind of gets dropped and moves and gets passed. It’s really the beginning of a discussion that we’re going to have not just within the legislature, but you know, with school districts, and others in North Carolina.”
55 years after the school board's decision, alumni from Williston's last two classes will get the chance to walk across the stage at their school and receive the graduation they've waited more than a half-century to enjoy.
The founder of The Roger Bacon Academy, the organization that manages Classical Charter Schools, stands by the school’s grooming standards for its students.
New Hanover County Schools administrators are proposing several ideas for improving the 13 schools in the district considered low-performing by the state Department of Public Instruction.
"I would like to be able to give all of our students a copy of the book “Oh the Places You Will Go” to take home with them,” Hemminger said on her DonorsChoose page.
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.
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