Teachers

Until recently, North Carolina teachers had to apply accrued time off or take unpaid leave when they had a child.

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.

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to use local funds to reinstate master's degree pay for teachers and social workers who would have qualified under a repealed state law.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.

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.

The North Carolina Board of Education unanimously approved a statement today calling for the pay boost.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.