New from EdNC
A look at housing in North Carolina and other states at the census-tract level
Editor’s Note: You can’t visit a school district in North Carolina without hearing about the lack of affordable housing for educators, a pattern exacerbated by the pandemic as city dwellers purchased property in the mountains and on the coast as well as by the expansion of short-term rentals, like Air B&B, statewide.…
Perspective | A teacher’s legacy: Inspiring can-do kids
Nearly 11 years ago, my oldest daughter, Morgan, received a heartwarming voicemail from her kindergarten teacher at Irwin Academic Center in Charlotte.…
The Editor’s Notes
Shout out to our colleagues at Book Harvest for holding a discussion yesterday about EdNC’s book! Hannah was there. Take a look!
While Hannah was in Durham, I was dropping off copies of the book at Park Road Books in Charlotte, where you can find it in the North Carolina section.
Here is the book, and here is the discussion guide. We hope you will talk out loud about our public schools in your book clubs, your Sunday School classes, at your local bookstore, in your PLCs, anywhere and everywhere people care about our local public schools.
Need to know
The First Year of Pell Restoration: A SNAPSHOT OF QUALITY, EQUITY, AND SCALE IN PRISON EDUCATION PROGRAMS
NC snapshot is on p. 49 of the report.... Read the rest
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SUMMER VIEWING | EdNC's "This IS Possible" -- a short documentary about rural public school students seeing and believing that the world is wide open to them
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ANN DOSS HELMS REPORTS | NC voucher expansion has GOP support, but didn’t materialize in state budget
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Cherokee County | Chilly relations with county, schools
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Asheville City Schools may freeze positions, cut staff; NC schools face fiscal 'cliff'
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Superintendents Are Calling Out Politicians More as Budgets Grow Precarious
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PRESS RELEASE | 13 Charter Schools Seek Approval to Open in either 2025 or 2026
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When Was the Golden Age of American K-12 Education? And How Can We Tell?
