When schools switched to remote learning in the spring, many parents felt the burden of helping their children learn while working a job. But a partnership between non-profits and the state’s largest school district is trying to make things easier for parents. Cole del Charco reports for WUNC.
Camp Kanata, a YMCA overnight camp, would normally be empty during the week this time of the year. Instead, the camp outside the town of Wake Forest has been transformed.
Students at universities across North Carolina are struggling to maintain a normal campus life. For one particular group of students, the pandemic has created some special challenges. Cole del Charco reports for WUNC.
Students at universities across North Carolina are struggling to maintain a normal campus life. For one particular group of students, the pandemic has created some special challenges.
Within one month of reopening campuses, positive COVID-19 cases are cropping up throughout the UNC System. Three of the system’s 17 schools have already pivoted to remote instruction: UNC Chapel Hill, East Carolina University and North Carolina State University have all ended in-person instruction, encouraging students to move off campus as soon as possible.
About 50 public school districts in North Carolina are returning this week with at least some in-person instruction. That's about one-third of all the state's students, mostly in rural areas. As Cole del Charco reports for the new WUNC series "Unprecedented", many educators are optimistic they can make it work.
About 50 public school districts in North Carolina are returning this week with at least some in-person instruction. That's about one third of all the state's students, mostly in rural areas.
WUNC's education reporters Liz Schlemmer and Cole del Charco are embarking on a special series of stories to chronicle the re-opening of school from a variety of perspectives. It's a series WUNC is calling "Unprecedented - Learning and Teaching in the time of Covid." They join feature news editor Dave DeWitt to talk about it.
A majority of North Carolina public school districts are returning to school remotely Monday.
When K-12 public school students in North Carolina resume classes this fall, the vast majority of them will be sitting at home in front of a computer screen.
Hundreds of thousands of students are descending on college campuses across North Carolina this week as universities prepare to reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Most students will take at least some of their classes online, among a long list of other precautions. But as WUNC's Liz Schlemmer reports, many underclassmen will be still be living in close quarters.
Amanni King sits at the front desk of a residence hall at Fayetteville State University, killing time while she waits for students. She's a resident assistant and her first move-in day of the pandemic feels slow compared to the usual welcoming.
Over half of the students enrolled in North Carolina public schools will be starting their school year at home this fall. Gov. Roy Cooper announced earlier this month that public schools can open through a Plan B or hybrid model, with some in-home and some face-to-face instruction, or with a Plan C model, with remote-only instruction.
Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Raleigh on Wednesday morning in a push to encourage more K-12 schools to reopen with entirely in-person instruction.
In an email to leaders at all 17 UNC System campuses, UNC Board of Governors Chairman Randall Ramsey asked each chancellor to prepare a proposal that reflects a budget cut of up to 50 percent.
The Trump administration backed off from a policy that would have kicked international students out of the country. WUNC's Jared Weber reports that there's still hurdles ahead for students coming to North Carolina universities from abroad.
The Trump administration backed down last week from a policy that would have kicked international students out of the country, if their college went all-online this fall. But, there's still plenty of hurdles ahead.
Local school districts within North Carolina can choose to follow Gov. Roy Cooper’s guidance on Plan B reopening — which includes remote and in-classroom hybrid learning — or they can choose complete remote-learning for the upcoming school year.
North Carolina teachers, parents and students — as well as gym and bar operators — are anxious to know what Gov. Roy Cooper will say about the path ahead with the COVID-19 pandemic.
School board meetings are buzzing with suggestions of segmented days, converted spaces, private-public partnerships and other ideas for a managed reopening of public schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Superintendent Earnest Winston said Tuesday that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools will get rid of all school names "that many in our community say glorify a racist, hateful and painful past."
WUNC's Liz Schlemmer reports on the impact the coronavirus is having on child care centers in North Carolina. Most of the childcare centers that have stayed open or reopened since March took a significant hit in enrollment, and some could be forced to shut their doors soon.
Cassandra Brooks owns and operates The Little Believer's Academy, with daycare centers in Clayton and Garner. After working a corporate job at IBM, it was her dream to start her own business caring for children.
WUNC's Liz Schlemmer and Dave DeWitt discuss reopening plans for colleges in North Carolina amidst the coronavirus pandemic and how faculties are reacting to them.
Colleges and universities across North Carolina – and across the country – are developing plans and backup plans for how to conduct classes this fall during the coronavirus pandemic. All are weighing safety and health risks with financial realities, and the realities of college life.
East Carolina University plans to place 110 workers on emergency temporary furloughs as a result of reduced revenues stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, the school announced Thursday.
In 2016, a 43-year-old black man named Keith Lamont Scott was shot by police about a mile away from the main campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The shooting sparked demonstrations in the student body, but the administration was slow to respond.
When this year’s seniors started their final year of high school, they could not have imagined that their spring would involve canceled proms, drive-thru cap and gown pickups and postponed graduation ceremonies.
For students and educators around the state, this year’s learning is in a state of flux. Public schools are holding out hope that they will reopen their doors before the school year ends.
North Carolina is not spending enough on education, according to a new report commissioned by Superior Court Judge David Lee. The report outlines that due to the state’s declining public education spending, public schools and academic performance are declining.
Elan Hope grew up in one of the wealthiest majority-African American counties in the United States: Prince George’s County, Maryland. She went to talented and gifted schools and attended a STEM-focused magnet high school.
The 2019 legislative session ended with no compromise on teacher pay raises. Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed Republican leaders’ final proposal of an average 3.9% increase, calling it “inadequate.”
Cole del Charco reports on how teachers in North Carolina continue to go without a pay raise after the General Assembly and Governor couldn’t come to an agreement on a budget.
Teachers in North Carolina are going without a pay raise until at least next year. That’s after the General Assembly and Governor couldn’t come to an agreement on a budget this past session, or even a so-called mini-budget, focused on teacher pay.
Do you remember watching educational movies in elementary school? Older generations might think of the teacher setting up the 16 mm projector, while younger folks were assigned YouTube videos to watch at home.
