Students from schools with a low percentage of children in poverty generally do better than students from schools that a have a high percentage of children in poverty. That’s a statement…
I think Wallethub is a ridiculous website. But I get a kick out of the fact that some of North Carolina’s “least equitable” districts are in our state’s most progressive…
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 $ …
SchoolGrades.org is a new website that uses a fair and uniform grading standard to evaluate nearly every public school in the nation. Gold schools, the highest rating in the SchoolGrades.org…
View in your browser. Welcome Niche.com recently released their K-12 School and District Rankings. Where did your local school district land on the ranking? How much did they spend to…
Haywood County Schools are now classifying electronic cigarettes as drug paraphernalia. Saith Superintendent Anne Garrett: We decided to consider it paraphernalia because we really don’t know what it is.
Here is a nice article about exit interviews of teachers leaving the Haywood County school system.
Local vendor Bruce Johnson wonders why his lowest and local bid to supply cleaning agents for Haywood County Schools was dissed. Johnson claims the flicking of his company off the…
View in your browser. Welcome This week, the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank located in D.C., released a new report on educational productivity. This study attempts to…
So, this has been stirring in the news, but I hate publicity stunts, so I was ignoring it. The issue concerns a student who presumably wanted to start a high-school…
Haywood classrooms are now focused on three new R’s: rigor, relevance and relationships.
A handful of Haywood County Democrats held a rally in Waynesville to protest the education budget. WLOS News 13 covered the event and offered the following summary of the festivities:…