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New N.C. law requires medical cards for bus drivers, and Orange County is stepping up

By Laura Brummett | March 8

School bus drivers in North Carolina are now required to carry a medical card in addition to their license at all times. But, bus drivers also must pass ...

Gone but not forgotten: Chapel Hill School District's slow start to desegregation

By Sophia Wilhelm | March 8

The Brown v. the Board of Education Supreme Court decision was made in 1954, but the Chapel Hill school board didn’t start desegregating schools until ...

A Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools bus drives toward Chapel Hill High School.

Chapel Hill High School renovations prioritized over Lincoln Center

By Doug Dubrowski | March 5

“The challenge right now is that we have significant need for renovations at our elementary school but no place to put students while we do that ...

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Admissions offices are reassuring prospective students after gun reform protests

By David Saff | February 28

Students subject to disciplinary action as a result of gun reform protests will not be penalized at many institutions.

Chapel Hill principal to retire: CHCCS sees change in leadership

By Michael Taffe | February 25

Personnel changes are being finalized as the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School District gets into the second half of the 2017-18 school year.

Southern voters see disparities in quality of education across region, poll shows

By David Saff | February 25

"Broadly, schools in the South tend to be funded at lower levels per student than schools in other parts of the country. But southern states also tend ...

Campus hate crimes steadily increasing with spike in 2016, FBI data shows

By Georgia Wieland-Stanford | February 21

The Anti-Defamation League confirmed there have been over 340 incidents of white supremacist propaganda being disseminated on college campuses in the ...

Here's how NC legislators responded to the Parkland school shooting

By Jonny Cook | February 19

In response to the Florida school shooting, some legislators are tweeting about arming school faculty.

ALERT Act would hold universities accountable for sexual abuse cases

By Blake Weaver | February 18

The bipartisan proposal would require university leaders to certify they have reviewed any reports of sexual abuse perpetrated by university employees. ...

President Donald Trump spoke in the Greensboro Coliseum in June of 2016.

How will the Trump administration's new budget proposal affect education?

By Cate Byrne | February 15

“I feel it’s a rollback of a lot of fairly successful programs — programs that support kids by providing educational access both in the K-12 ...

Orange County rural residents are getting connected

By Doug Dubrowski | February 14

The Orange County Board of Commissioners is allocating up to $500,000 for a company to bring high-speed broadband to the area.

Homeschooling parents and children decorated a sign for December's Holiday Craft Fair and Cookie Exchange. Photo courtesy of Emily Brewer.

What it's like to be home-schooled in Orange County

By Mattias Miller | February 13

Chapel Hill and Carrboro boast some of the best schools in the state, but there remains a large community of families that chooses an alternative form ...

Confusion buttons and other tech promotes classroom participation

By Cate Byrne | February 8

How many times have you wished for a confusion button during a particularly difficult lecture? One professor found a way to boost classroom participation ...

Think student loans are confusing? So does the U.S. Department of Education

By Anna Pogarcic | February 6

A report from the U.S. Department of Education shows the U.S. is lending more money in federal student loans than it is being repaid. In just four years, ...

According to a new study, the student debt crisis is complicated

By Anna Pogarcic | February 4

While the number of students receiving grants has risen since 2012, the percentage taking out loans decreased.

Following Muhammad, Public Speaking, and Managerial Accounting are only three of the many books written by UNC professors.

How do students feel about professors who teach their own textbooks?

By Blake Weaver | February 4

Professors who teach texts they have authored themselves may give in to conflicts of interest.

NCCU School of Law's accreditation under review by ABA

By Emily Davis | January 22

N.C. Central University's School of Law is under threat of losing its accreditation after examination by the American Bar Association.

Protestors created a variety of signs and posters before the Sebastian Gorka's November speech on campus.

NC ranked top state for campus free speech despite controversial BOG policy

By Georgia Wieland-Stanford | January 21

Although a December study by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education ranked North Carolina as best in the nation for campus free speech, debate ...

Lack of suicide statistics at universities raises questions of prevention, response

By Lucas Risinger | January 21

A recent study found nearly half of the 100 largest public universities — including UNC-Chapel Hill — do not keep statistics on campus suicides. ...

UNC senior Rubi Franco Quiroz speaks on Sept. 18 at the DACA in Crisis event, a panel discussion comprised of lawyers, activists and students about how to support the undocumented and DACAmented community.

Stuck in limbo: Future for Dreamers remains uncertain

By Anna Pogarcic | January 16

Amid debates in Congress over the future of DACA, the President’s Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration wrote a letter to the majority and minority ...