Ann Doss Helms
Ann Doss Helms covers education for WFAE. She was a reporter for The Charlotte Observer for 32 years, including 16 years on the education beat. She has repeatedly won first place in education reporting from the North Carolina Press Association and won the 2015 Associated Press Senator Sam Open Government Award for reporting on charter school salaries.
She has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a master's in liberal arts from Winthrop University.
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In the Charlotte region, fear and frustration mix with desperate hope for change as educators and parents face another mass school shooting. -
A new analysis of North Carolina test scores shows middle school students lost more than a year’s worth of ground in math during the pandemic. -
For the second time this month, a North Carolina House committee on the future of public education Monday postponed discussion of teacher pay and benefits. -
About 200 people turned out for "school board boot camps" hosted by the North Carolina Values Coalition to prepare them to run or support campaigns for local school board seats. Race, mask mandates and "pornographic books" were topics. -
North Carolina Superintendent Catherine Truitt told state legislators Monday that neither the state’s standardized exams nor the school performance grades that are based on them do a good job of measuring school quality. A committee is studying the future of education. -
Almost 250,000 North Carolina students attended summer school in 2021 and many saw benefits, a report presented Wednesday says. But school districts struggled to recruit teachers and attract students. -
North Carolina's $50 million bid to boost reading skills gets under way as more than 10,000 teachers begin a time-consuming, two-year program in the science of reading. -
North Carolina teachers must spend 80 hours a year learning new strategies based on the science of reading. Leaders scramble to find time and money to support them, saying teachers are exhausted but kids need the help. -
In a year that opened with two school shootings, North Carolina officials and national anti-violence experts spoke to a safe schools task force about reducing gun violence. -
North and South Carolina are among 26 states with an OSHA workplace safety plan that could require COVID-19 vaccinations for employees of public school districts. State officials are awaiting details.
