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Until recently, North Carolina teachers had to apply accrued time off or take unpaid leave when they had a child.
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A Wake County teacher has launched an online tool to help teachers calculate how much money they've lost over their careers due to inflation.
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The Wake County school board has voted to use local funds to reinstate master's degree pay for teachers and social workers who would have qualified under a repealed state law. The board also approved additional bonuses to reward bus drivers for perfect attendance.
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To have a career in teaching, every beginning teacher must first pass a test. More than 1,000 teachers have struggled to pass their exams on time, including this art teacher in Cumberland County Schools.
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The North Carolina Board of Education unanimously approved a statement today calling for the pay boost.
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The Professional Educator Preparation and Standards Commission voted on Thursday to back a summary of licensure and compensation goals to pass along to the State Board of Education. The commission already has been refining a licensure and pay plan that ultimately would need buy-in from the board and funding from the General Assembly.
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The Transformational Scholarship provides $40,000 toward tuition at NC State's College of Education to students from eastern North Carolina who intend to return to that region to teach.
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“Although on paper, it looks like we have a vacancy, we don't have a void,” says superintendent Michael Sasscer. Edenton-Chowan Schools is pairing a new or substitute teacher with an experienced teacher in a co-teaching relationship to fill its vacancies.
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Over the past decades, state funding for schools has fluctuated. To understand what that looks like, WUNC's education reporter Liz Schlemmer spoke with two veteran teachers.
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The North Carolina Association of Educators is opposing a state plan to change how teachers are licensed and paid. Representatives for the teachers' association held a press conference Tuesday saying the plan might worsen, rather than alleviate, a growing teacher shortage.