By Shawnice Meador, President, Executive Director of Public Ed Works RALEIGH (January 6, 2026) – At Public Ed Works, we’re stepping into the year with energy, urgency, and deep commitment to North ...

RALEIGH (December 31, 2025) – 2025 was noteworthy more for what didn’t happen in North Carolina than what did. In fact, the word of the year for North Carolina might be ...

RALEIGH (December 31, 2025) – Public Ed Works thanks you for another year of support for our local public schools.  Now, more than ever, it’s important to make your voice heard. ...

By Don Martin WINSTON-SALEM (December 23, 2025) – In 2013, the NC General Assembly passed the “Opportunity Scholarship” law to provide scholarship funds for low-income students who wished to attend private ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Gov. Jim Hunt advanced public education in North Carolina in many, many ways – but mainly by setting high expectations in the days before the state’s governors had ...

ELON (December 17, 2025) – North Carolinians are confused by their state’s education structure. But they do know schools are underfunded, teachers are paid too little and the chief culprit ...

By Dr. Deanna Townsend-Smith Dudley Flood Center for Educational Equity & Opportunity RALEIGH (December 17, 2025) – In North Carolina, we are watching a disturbing choice play out in real time: Playing ...

By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works RALEIGH (December 17, 2025) – Public schools are grappling with the negative effects of increasing segregation, and North Carolina’s expanded private school vouchers only aggravate the ...

By Art Padilla WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH (December 10, 2025) – When the Ida and William Friday Building at UNC–Charlotte was dedicated in 1982, Wilma Thornburg—Bill Friday’s elementary school teacher—sat on the platform ...

By Dr. Deanna Townsend-Smith Dudley Flood Center for Educational Equity & Opportunity RALEIGH (December 10, 2025) – In December 2019, North Carolina made a bold and necessary commitment to focus statewide attention ...