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In case you missed him …
Terry Stoops discussed the second round of A-F grades for N.C. public schools during an appearance on Time Warner Cable News’ “Capital Tonight.”
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Thank goodness for PowerSchool
Today I received an amusing memo dealing with North Carolina’s awful student information system, PowerSchool (a Pearson product). Well, I am amused. I doubt that public school employees feel the…
Education
Class sizes barely budge under Republicans
View in your browser. Welcome Do North Carolina classrooms look like the planet Gideon from Season 3, Episode 16 of Star Trek? Bulletin Board Learn. The John Locke Foundation and…
Education
NC DPI and Pearson’s Power[School] trip
View in your browser. Welcome North Carolina’s new student information system, PowerSchool, is up and running…more or less. Bulletin Board Attend. A list of upcoming events sponsored by the John…
Liberty
Goldilocks: CMS and Sex Assault
Says here that North Meck admins are in the dock because they took too long to report a sexual assault on school grounds to police. Uh huh. We know —…
Liberty
WSFCS teacher cleared of misconduct
Wiley Middle School teacher Jason Ford —- who was the focus of an investigation into allegations of improper misconduct —- has been cleared after police determined that students made up…
Liberty
Two schools caught up in WSFCS investigation
Wiley Middle School and Parkland High School are the focus of an SBI investigation of whether or nor Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools promptly reported allegations of teacher misconduct. Wiley ESL teacher…
Liberty
The Butler Conspiracy
With today’s reporting from Franco Ordoñez and Fred Clasen-Kelly, CMS and the Matthews Police Department enter a danger zone. In fact, the suspension of Butler High School Principal Theresa Hopkins…
Liberty
What is Going on at Butler High?
If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me that in the last 24 hours, I’d have enough to make it rain in da club. CMS is playing…
Liberty
Fast times at Atkins High
Less than a week after teacher Amy Yarbrough was sentenced to two years in prison for having sex with a student in her classroom, a woman who accused principal Dan…
Liberty
Special interest group receives hefty grant from State Board of Education
The State Board of Education has agreed to a $168,500 contract with the NC Association of School Administrators (NCASA) for “professional development services for NC Principals.” The director of the…
Liberty
Attention Hawk Ridge Parents
Ahem. Trying to keep this civil… You want your morning bell to be 7:30am. It is better for you, it is better for your kids. Why? Because the earlier the…