State Superintendent

Catherine Truitt sat down with WUNC education reporter Liz Schlemmer for a wide-ranging conversation. Truitt is entering her third year as North Carolina's state superintendent of public instruction.

A judge this week reversed a settlement between the UNC System and the Sons of Confederate Veterans, making the fate of the mangled Silent Sam statue…

The state superintendent made a $928,000 emergency purchase that stoked the fight with the state board of education over what tool schools should be using…

North Carolina's superintendent of public instruction is alleging that more than 70,000 third-grade students have been wrongly promoted since 2014 even…

Michelle Burton is a library media coordinator at an elementary school in Durham. On a normal day, she helps teachers and students with computers, manages…

State Superintendent Mark Johnson and the Department of Public Instruction are taking steps to reduce the amount of time North Carolina students spend…

Tension between State Superintendent Mark Johnson and the State Board of Education has not improved since the Supreme Court handed down its ruling in a…

The North Carolina Supreme Court will hear a case Wednesday over a power struggle between Republican State Superintendent Mark Johnson and the…

State Superintendent Mark Johnson's first months leading North Carolina Public Schools has been marked by a legal battle over just how much power his…

June Atkinson has served as the state superintendent for almost a decade. During her tenure there have been a number of significant changes to the state’s…