Wake County Schools

State funding for school employee salaries hasn’t kept up with the cost of living in cities. Wake County Schools is struggling to keep employees, and that puts pressure on the county commission to raise local taxes.

The superintendent of Wake County Schools has shared a budget proposal that would require a 9% increase in county funding to pay for school employee raises and other school improvements.

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to use local funds to reinstate master's degree pay for teachers and social workers who would have qualified under a repealed state law.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

Transportation director Bob Snidemiller told the school board this week that the district has lost over 169 bus drivers since 2019.

A parents group called the Safe Schools Polling Initiative raised concerns about unauthorized people on campuses while students are in class, following the school shooting in Uvalde Texas.

A federal program that provides free meals to all students will end July 30, so school systems are scrambling to set prices that reflect rising costs.

The Wake County and Charlotte-Mecklenburg school boards voted separately on Tuesday to remove their broad COVID-19 mask requirements as of March 7. A large majority of school districts have now voted for mask-optional policies as COVID-19 transmission rates have fallen.

On a winter Friday at Cedar Point Apartments in Raleigh, a school bus parks in the lot. But not to take students to class.It’s here so kids and families…

Middle school students in the Wake County school district are set to return to classrooms on Monday.A third of students will be in each building at a…

Report cards have been distributed for the first time in the 2020-21 school year, and in many school districts across the state, students have yet to set…