Liz Schlemmer
Education ReporterLiz Schlemmer is WUNC's K-12 Education Reporter. She has previously served as the Fletcher Fellow for Education Policy Reporting at WUNC and as the education reporter at Louisville Public Media.
She holds a M.A. from the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at UNC-Chapel Hill and a B.A. in history from Indiana University. Liz is originally from rural Indiana, where she grew up with a large extended family of educators.
Twitter: LSchlemmer_WUNC
Email: lschlemmer@wunc.org
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An annual report from the Education Law Center has ranked North Carolina 49th among states for its "effort" to fund public schools - a measure that considers the state's economic capacity to increase school funding. -
The North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority (NCSEAA) says 54,000 Opportunity Scholarships have been offered to families -
Wake County Schools is facing a projected $3 million budget shortfall that will likely require budget cuts this school year, district finance officials advised. -
This month, Durham Public Schools is rotating bus service. Next, the district could create family responsibility zones and express bus stops that would alter service for about 2,000 students. District officials say they hope these steps will provide more consistent busing for students who have no other transportation. -
WUNC education reporter Liz Schlemmer explains the immediate and longer-term plans to get students to school amid ongoing school bus driver shortage. -
Durham Public Schools will begin rotating its bus service for students, because 17 buses in the district don't have a consistent driver. -
State senators finalized an override of Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of House Bill 10, which significantly expands funding for private school vouchers, known as Opportunity Scholarships, over the next decade. -
The North Carolina House voted to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's veto of a bill that drastically expands private school scholarship grants and forces local sheriffs to comply with federal immigration agents' requests to detain certain inmates. The House voted along party lines on Tuesday. -
North Carolina lawmakers are expected to vote this week on a veto override of a bill that would commit nearly $6.5 billion in state funding for private school vouchers over the next decade. The Opportunity Scholarships have evolved over the past decade from a small $10 million pilot program, to a major budget expense that could transform education in the state. -
Local superintendents are still assessing how much damage will be covered by FEMA or insurance.
