The Wake County Public School System announced its 13 finalists for 2016-17 Teacher of the Year by making surprise visits to those educators’ classrooms on Thursday and Friday. The announcements were eagerly tracked by the schools where the 26 semifinalists work.
NFL star Philip Rivers is here in Raleigh for N.C. State’s annual football reunion. Sadly, he left his incognito softball disguise in San Diego.That might have been the only way he could have snuck into Saturday’s alumni flag football game before the Kay Yow Spring Game.
UNC system President Margaret Spellings said Friday she’s concerned about the signal that House Bill 2 sends, and about its impact on the university system’s ability to recruit faculty, staff and students to North Carolina.
Students from Candace Morgan and Rose DeLaTorre’s Triangle Day School transitional kindergarten class describe letters they wrote for the UNC basketball team after their loss in the National Championship game Friday, April 8, 2016 in Durham, N.C. Morgan graduated from UNC in 2004 and encouraged her students to use the loss as a chance to learn about compassion.
