Recent legislation passed by the General Assembly gives the power to Local Education Agencies to determine how the corporal punishment law will be administered in their jurisdictions.
A research study conducted by Dr. Gracie M. Davis describes the initiation, settlement, and outcomes of fifteen teacher grievance cases settled in North Carolina from 1987 to 1989.
Jim Elmore, president of Johnston County's North Carolina Association of Educators, discusses the county's L3 program. Life Long Learning (L3) promises to provide money for college tuition and books if high school students meet the stringent criteria put forth by the program.
RJR Nabisco's charitable program for schools, the Next Century Schools program, provided money to two schools in Charlotte for the design and implementation of innovative, community-supported approaches to learning.
Many of North Carolina's working women earn wages that keep them at poverty level, hold jobs that offer no room for advancement, and earn less than men for equal work. The consequences of this status quo reach far beyond the women themselves to affect the entire state.
Two of North Carolina's computerized global classrooms are located in Zebulon and East Wake middle schools. The schools are involved in a partnership with the NC School of Science and Math designed to increase aptitude in the sciences and math.