Forty-three percent of North Carolina K-12 schools received a grade of D or F on state report cards, and state test scores show academic achievement is lagging and racial achievement…
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 $ …
After years of losing enrollment and market share to homeschools, school districts are looking for ways to bring them back into the district system, mostly to boost revenues. Last year,…
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…
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 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…
This week’s newsletter, Which school districts get the most bang for the buck?, prompted several folks to ask for a complete list of school district spending and performance. Enjoy! District…
View in your browser. Welcome Over the next few months, the NC Department of Public Instruction will release key personnel, financial, and student enrollment information for each of the state’s…
Congratulations to all recipients of dropout prevention grants for 2010. I would like to give a special shout-out to Rev. William Barber, President of the North Carolina NAACP, who serves…
Terry, Barber’s feat of getting Saunders back in the choir singing the new resegretation hymn isn’t nearly as impressive as his staking out the position that Wayne County’s school system…
From John Hood’s Daily Journal: The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP is pursuing legal action under the federal Civil Rights Act to force the school system in Wayne County…
This is pretty funny. A Wayne County middle school decides to raise money by selling off test points for every donation. Adults thought this was a good idea. The N&O…