By J. Drew Tonissen In 2024, I stood in a Charlotte auditorium watching two Myers Park High School alumni, one Black and one White, discuss how they discovered their lives were ...

CHAPEL HILL (June 3, 2026) – North Carolina needs more engineers. It’s that simple. In the accompanying video, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Lee Roberts makes the case for why Carolina plans to ...

By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works  WARSAW (June 3, 2026) – From tomatoes to strawberries to edible flowers, students have tried to grow just about everything in an old shipping container at ...

CHAPEL HILL (May 28, 2026) – UNC-Chapel Hill hasn’t kept up with North Carolina’s growth. But it intends to now, with a plan to add 5,000 students over 10 years. Incredibly, ...

By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works  KENANSVILLE (May 28, 2026) – James Sprunt Community College is meeting the needs of Spanish-speaking people in Eastern North Carolina through the Latino Education Center, which ...

CHAPEL HILL (May 22, 2026) – Once again, the University of North Carolina has become a culture-war battleground with the recent denial of tenure for Kiran Asher. Asher was one of ...

By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works  CHAPEL HILL (May 22, 2026) – Students at Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools are learning science through hands-on experiences after a new state science standard rollout and ...

By Art Padilla We may soon discover how many millions of dollars North Carolina taxpayers are willing to pay for institutional ego. WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH (May 22, 2026) – A recent UNC-Wilmington request ...

RALEIGH (May 14, 2026) – We don’t know all the important details yet, but we’re grateful to state legislators for their announcement this week that they’ve agreed on an average ...

By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works  RALEIGH (May 14, 2026) – During Teacher Appreciation Week, Public Ed Works staff launched our latest billboard campaign and shared heartwarming stories about the teachers who ...