Public School Forum

A think-and-do tank committed to North Carolina public schools

Education Matters – Childhood Trauma & Learning

Topic: Childhood Trauma & Learning Studies show that children who regularly experience trauma score lower than their peers on standardized tests are more likely to fail a grade, are placed in special education more frequently and are more likely to be suspended and expelled. Research has helped to answer the question why — and the […]

Without action, class size mandate threatens Pre-K in some school districts

Children attend Pre-K at Warren County’s Mariam Boyd Elementary School in Warrenton. Photo Credit: Warren County Schools. By Lindsay Wagner Without the necessary time and money to build more elementary school classrooms to satisfy the General Assembly’s requirement to lower class sizes next year in kindergarten through third grades, Warren County Schools’ Superintendent Dr. Ray […]

Education Matters – Voucher School Controversy

Topic: Voucher School Controversy Trinity Christian School in Fayetteville has received more taxpayer dollars via the state’s private school voucher program than any other school in the state. It’s also home to an embezzlement scandal involving a teacher who runs the school’s elite basketball program while spending weekends in jail. We take a closer look […]

Out of Bounds: Embezzlement and Basketball at North Carolina’s Biggest Voucher School

By Lindsay Wagner Senior Writer When a coach at one of Fayetteville’s top private school basketball programs—a school that also happens to be the state’s top recipient of private school vouchers—pleaded guilty last summer in a Wake County courthouse to embezzling hundreds of thousands of tax withholding dollars he collected over eight years from the […]

Joanna Schimizzi to Lead Public School Forum of North Carolina’s Statewide Beginning Teacher Leadership Network

RALEIGH, NC (November 2, 2017) – The Public School Forum of North Carolina has tapped Joanna Schimizzi as Statewide Coordinator for its growing Beginning Teacher Leadership Network (BTLN). The BTLN expanded into three new counties this school year and now works with early-career teachers in six North Carolina counties: Cabarrus, Carteret, Mecklenburg, Onslow, Union and […]