The Wake County school system has implemented a hiring freeze on middle school and high school teachers and on elementary school teacher assistants.

A federal stimulus program called "Race to the Top" could mean hundreds of millions of dollars for North Carolina's cash-strapped public schools.

Earning valedictorian honors at a large preparatory high school isn't easy. Neither is getting accepted to Notre Dame.

A Duke University researcher is charged with offering up his adopted 5-year-old son for sex with a stranger he met over the Internet.

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to stop a school district from blocking a group of Christian students from forming a Bible club on campus.

The president of a small liberal arts college in North Carolina is reporting for his last day on the job.

As the new chairman of the Wake County Republican Party, Claude E. Pope Jr. has wasted no time pushing his party to focus on this fall's school board and Raleigh City Council elections.

Clay Allsopp, a student at Raleigh's Enloe High School, recently won the HensonFuerst Video Public Service Announcement Contest, which asked area teens to produce videos about cycling safety.

A North Carolina community college administrator is the top pick to lead a Tennessee school.

Students say it is common for bullies to taunt and hit them or their classmates. Superintendents and principals say that bullying is a small problem

The story's the same each year. Elon students arrive in the fall, boost the local fast-food industry's economy for a few months while occasionally stirring up noise complaints, then leave every spring.

UNC-Chapel Hill is turning once again to an outside consultant for help finding a top administrator.

The N.C. House passed legislation Monday night that would add North Carolina to a handful of states with anti-bullying laws.

Federal energy officials have approved North Carolina's use of $76million in stimulus funds for a state energy plan.

A new Wake County school system report says the overwhelming majority of students attend schools near where they live, potentially undercutting arguments from critics who complain about the district busing children far from home.

The school system could crack down on students who are illegally attending school in Wake.

The game of guessing who wants to replace Rosa Gill on the school board is well underway.

County commissioner Becky Heron has a definite opinion about Durham Public Schools' notion to build a new high school at Cornwallis and Erwin roads.

The principal of Carver Elementary School has resigned following her suspension over a reported incident with a student, according to Wake County school officials.

The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board has approved a teaching position for the basketball coach at Chapel Hill High School.

The love was flowing Tuesday for Rosa Gill at her last meeting as a school board member.

New college graduates who were enticed into teaching careers by state scholarships and prospects of a pushover job market are now facing closed classroom doors.

Though the recession has brought a halt to new large-scale building projects at Duke, the university is moving forward with some renovations on its lackluster Central Campus.

The Wake school board is scheduled to introduce a new policy on professional learning communities that will coincide with the weekly early dismissals that will start in July.

Here are today's high school graduation ceremonies.

The leadership of the Wake County Democratic Party picked Wake County School Board Chairwoman Rosa Gill on Thursday to serve out the term of state Rep. Dan Blue.

A N.C. House budget proposal brokered late this week brought at least a temporary measure of relief to community college officials and local police and fire chiefs alike.