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A plan to overhaul teacher tenure, the school calendar and school assessment is evolving in the state Senate as more questions and potential pitfalls emerge upon examination.

Brandon Smith faces two counts of sexual battery after a two-month investigation into claims that he sexually harassed two teachers.

Overwhelmed with emotion, Victoria Gregg, left, wells up with tears as she greets her son Kenny Gregg after commencement exercise for Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School at the Progress Energy Center for Performing Arts in Raleigh on Tuesday, May 29, 2012. See other photos from the graduation...

Many who signed the petition praise Hankins’ leadership and cite a perception he was demoted because he is black, a charge that school board officials say is unwarranted.

The youngest person ever to qualify for the National Spelling Bee was running around in a stream with a friend, hunting for rocks. Suddenly, she came charging up the bank and headed straight for her mother.

The Wake County Public School System’s plans for a ninth-grade-only school in west Cary have run up against the objections of the Cary Town Council.

They also hear about new procedures designed to prevent future fraud like what happened in the African and Afro-American Studies department.

The total budget, including the total the state House proposes to spend next year, is not available, but House members pushed major pieces through committees Thursday. The house budget doesn’t anticipate any fee increases, and the state courts would escape major reductions while federal election grants would be unfrozen.

Tens of thousands of North Carolina public school students would leave for private classrooms if they got tuition help of up to $4,000 a year funded by corporations able to donate their money instead of paying state taxes, an analysis showed for legislation introduced Wednesday.

People can’t say enough good things about making sure students can read by the time they reach fourth grade, one proposal among the sweeping changes Republican senate leaders want in public education. The rest of their plan, however, has not drawn the same praise.

North Carolina has been cleared from meeting the most rigorous requirements of the No Child Left Behind law.

The Franklin County Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday to remove prayer in response to a parent complaint filed with the state ACLU.

A Wake County family has filed a complaint against the school system’s decision to suspend allowing elementary school students to take the new middle school math curriculum.

They sported horns and rainbow leggings, showed off kilts and green hair, carried sunflowers and spigots and swords down Raleigh streets in an oddball parade.

Well Fed and Well Read is a new initiative by PORCH and Book Harvest, providing children in need at least 10 free books over the summer and bags of fresh food to their parents every month.

Triangle Politics:  Superintendent Tony Tata says it’s not helpful when the board speaks with many voices. But member Jim Martin disagrees.

Challenges in higher education make it necessary for a new strategy, Chancellor Holden Thorp says

UNC President Emeritus William Friday, 91, will enter extended period of rehabilitation after being released from the hospital on Thursday.

Members of the DPS Board of Education and about 30 community organizations gathered at Fayetteville Street Elementary School to support the district’s 24-point legislative agenda, which calls for more state funding for teachers salaries, smaller class sizes, a cap on charter schools and the reinstatement of a three-quarter-cent sales tax.