Today, state education officials released 2021-22 testing results and graduation rates for all North Carolina public schools. Scores from the 2020-21 school year were sobering. The North Carolina Department of…
To help recruit and retain teachers, more school districts are considering programs to provide affordable housing to teachers. Not only does research fail to show that those programs are effective,…
North Carolina K-12 public schools have received close to $6 billion in Covid-19 relief funds A new analysis finds school districts have about 75% of Covid funds unspent, and although…
K-12 public school districts in North Carolina have received about $6 billion in federal funds to help address the coronavirus pandemic. On average, since last March, school districts have spent…
According to data released by the NC Department of Public Instruction today, the average per-pupil expenditures (PPE) for each district in 2019-20 were as follows: Year LEA LEA Name Total PPE…
The following are data published by the NC Department of Public Instruction. Public School Unit Name Allocations (as of August 14, 2020) Alamance-Burlington Schools $ 9,630,194 Alexander County Schools $ …
As I mentioned in two previous blog posts, the N.C. Department of Public Instruction just released figures for the 2018-19 school year. Note that city school systems follow the county in which they…
In “Schools defend work to close racial achievement gap, unsure of cause,” Carolina Public Press reporter Imari Scarbrough examines the wide achievement gaps between students who attend public schools in…
Last week, the N.C. Department of Public Instruction released per-student expenditure data for the 2017-18 school year. While most districts increased spending from 2017 to 2018, 10 districts spent less. …
Earlier this week, the N.C. Department of Public Instruction published the final 2015-16 student counts for all district and charter schools. I used Average Daily Membership (ADM) data to determine…
The Center for Education Policy Analysis recently unveiled the impressive Stanford Education Data Archive. According to Education Week, researchers from Stanford and Harvard used the data to analyze the “average…
This is very progressive. Teachers will now get to stay in public/private housing. The 24-unit project is a partnership between Asheville City Schools, Buncombe County Schools, Eblen’s Center for Social…