1/17/2025
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Charter review board approves 32 charter renewals, closes a longtime Durham school
Editor’s Note: EdNC has retained Kristen Blair to cover the monthly meetings of the Charter Schools Review Board in 2025. Kristen currently serves as the communications director for the North Carolina Coalition for Charter Schools. She has written for EdNC...
An invitation to a conference on child hunger, a new website on food insecurity among college students, and more from the Carolina Hunger Initiative
Since 2012, the Carolina Hunger Initiative (CHI) has hosted a conference that brings together hundreds of school nutrition professionals, food bank staff, educators, and other champions from across the state. In 2025, the 14th annual conference is on Feb. 25...
Hyde County cuts ribbon on needs-based grant project at Mattamuskeet School
The Hyde County Industrial Arts Center officially opened on Tuesday at a ribbon cutting ceremony attended by teachers, students, administrators, and other community members. Dr. Melanie Shaver, superintendent of Hyde County Schools, addressed a crowd gathered inside the new building...
Freshman enrollment this fall is actually up, National Student Clearinghouse finds
Enrollment among first-year college students across the United States did not decline this fall, as previously reported by the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) Research Center in its annual preliminary enrollment report released in October. On Monday, Jan. 13, the NSC...
Perspective | Building resilient educators through mindfulness
Teaching is often described as a noble profession, requiring boundless energy, creativity, and an unwavering commitment to students. Yet the demands of teaching often come at a cost to educators’ mental health. According to 2023 data from the National Alliance...
The Editor’s Notes
Given their expanded policymaking authority, EdNC will be covering the Charter School Review Board meetings in 2025. We have retained Kristen Blair to cover the monthly meetings. Kristen has written for EdNC since 2015, and I think she is among the best education reporters in the state. She currently serves as the communications director for the North Carolina Coalition for Charter Schools. We plan to disclose that in both her bio and the articles. Hannah Vinueza McClellan and I are editing, and EdNC retains editorial control. Kristen’s first article is included in this EdDaily. We hope you will republish and share.
Ten years ago, on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2025, I pushed publish on the very first EdDaily. The following Monday, John Drescher ran a paid one-page ad for me in The News & Observer that said, “EdNC invites you — all of you — to participate in a conversation about our public schools at EdNC.org.” We started with an audience of zero, and now we have more than 1.2 million unique readers access content on our site annually with more than 2 million pageviews. Many more find us on social media and through Google search. And we send out about 300,000 emails a week. Thank you for participating in the conversation and for sticking with me for a decade. I am grateful.
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