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A high school student visiting a North Carolina community college shot himself in the hand, sparking an hourslong lockdown on campus on Thursday, police said.

The advocacy nonprofit LatinxEd has released a report calling for more investment in education support for Latino students, who now make up 18 percent of North Carolina's public schools students.

An analysis by the N.C. Watchdog Reporting Network of hundreds of fuel sample records from school buses with MaxxForce engines across the state shows that oil sample tests found elevated levels of fuel in the oil more than one third of the time.

The study included 61 school districts, more than 3,000 schools, and more than 1.1 million students and adults from across nine states, according to Duke University, which released the findings and is a member of the collaborative.

Economically disadvantaged students saw the greatest losses. All subgroups of students, including students labeled as academically gifted, were negatively affected.

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.

A North Carolina judge has scheduled a hearing this week that could conclude with him taking the extraordinary step of ordering $1.7 billion be spent on addressing inequities in public education.

State health officials compared the rate of COVID-19 clusters in North Carolina schools without mask mandates to those that require masks.

Since the mass school shooting in Columbine, America has seemed almost powerless against rogue gunmen attacking defenseless suburban schools. After the…

Since the mass school shooting in Columbine, America has seemed almost powerless against rogue gunmen attacking defenseless suburban schools. After the…