4/7/2026
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Record-high number of high schoolers completed college-level courses in 2024-25, NC reports
In a historic high, 54% of North Carolina’s high school graduates took and passed at least one college-level course before graduation in 2024-25, according to a report from the Department of Public Instruction (DPI). Those courses include Advanced Placement (AP),...
Here’s how NC defines ‘in-demand’ and ‘high-wage’ jobs — and how that compares to other states
As states prepare to implement Workforce Pell — a historic expansion of federal Pell Grants for students in short-term workforce training programs — all eyes have turned to a key eligibility requirement: programs must align with “high-skill, high-wage, or in-demand...
Perspective | ‘Right where they belong’ begins in middle school
In 1979, I graduated from Strayhorn Junior High School. Strayhorn, Mississippi, was a community, not a township or city. We only had a small local convenience store and a combined elementary and junior high school. After graduating from junior high,...
Perspective | What Ann McColl really thinks about Leandro
Editor’s Note: Ann McColl is an attorney and state constitutional scholar, who has worked in the field of education law and policy since graduating from the UNC Law School in 1991. She has written for EdNC about Leandro since our...
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