9/15/2025
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Perspective | Are kids making progress in reading? It all depends on how you measure it
This piece first appeared at The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education. Sign up for free newsletters from The 74 to get more like this in your inbox. Earlier this summer, the curriculum and assessment company Amplify reported that...
Meet Lindsay Phillips, the 2025 NC Charter School Teacher of the Year
Lindsay Phillips, a kindergarten teacher at Mountain Island Charter School (MICS) in Mount Holly, is the 2025 N.C. Charter School Teacher of the Year. A veteran teacher, she has 20 years of experience in the classroom, having worked for 10 years in...
NC’s Teacher of the Year is an AVID educator, advocate for rural schools, and a Swiftie
A Q&A with Wellcome Middle School’s Rachel Candaso Rachel Candaso of Pitt County Schools was named the 2025 Burroughs Wellcome Fund NC Teacher of the Year last April. The Department of Public Instruction (DPI) recently published a Q&A with Candaso about her...
The Editor’s Notes
This week is Arts and Education Week here in North Carolina and nationally. Here is Gov. Josh Stein’s proclamation. Thank you to all of our arts educators!
Stein is scheduled to announce today his latest federal budget request, calling on Congress to send more Hurricane Helene recovery funding to WNC and asking federal agencies to more quickly release already-approved funds.
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