The Public School Forum Partners are organizations and corporations invested in the future of the 1.5 million public school students in North Carolina that will employ the NC workforce of […]
Committee on Low-Performing Schools
Our third committee focused on the challenges of turning around the state’s lowest-performing schools. Its work complements the efforts of the other two committees; together, they offer a suite of […]
Collective Care: Generating a School Culture that Promotes Staff Wellness
[…] districts have been wrestling with how to support staff through the intense and chaotic demands of this pandemic. Whereas a growing understanding of trauma and social and emotional learning in […]
Friday Report – June 22, 2018
[…] Proposed Legislation Would End School Funding Lawsuits After Flip-Flopping, NC Lawmakers Say Town’s Can’t Shift Roadwork Costs to Schools Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education Discusses ‘Renewal’ Possibility Why Wake County Teachers […]
Friday Report – February 2, 2018
The Friday Report February 2, 2018 Forum News This Week on Education Matters: The Future of Education in the American South A new report out this week says that while […]
Friday Report – June 15, 2018
[…] be preempted on FOX 50 this Sunday due to network programming, but will be b roadcast on WRAL-TV and UNC-TV as normally scheduled. Saturday at 7:30 PM, WRAL-TV (Raleigh/Durham/Fayetteville) Sunday at 6:30 […]
Study Group XVI: Expanding Educational Opportunity in North Carolina
[…] that the challenges of poverty, racial isolation, and trauma are huge hurdles that require b road, systemic action. The meetings of our three study group committees, and their resulting Action […]
Friday Report – March 17, 2017
This week in #nced: Trump Proposes Deep Cuts in Dept of Education; Cooper’s First State of the State Address
Friday Report – June 2, 2017
[…] Vouchers Sparks Debate Student Achievement Gap Dominates Debate Over Math NC House Moves to Shift Road Funding to New Charter School Bus Grant If Only CMS Could Clone America’s Best […]
Friday Report – September 22, 2017
This week in #nced: The Principal Pay Situation in NC; Court of Appeals Decisions Affect Ed Policy
Friday Report – April 13, 2018
[…] which result in lost instructional time, reduce graduation rates and set our students on the road toward joblessness and poverty. There is innovative work going on in North Carolina called […]
Friday Report – February 10, 2017
[…] Education Issues Video Presentation Did you miss our Eggs & Issues breakfast? The video of our Top 10 Education Issues of 2017 presentation is now available online here. Forum […]
Friday Report – April 27, 2018
[…] of North Carolina where young people are at risk of not succeeding. The report, Road map of Need 2018, was released Thursday at the Center for Afterschool Programs 14th annual […]
Moving Forward: Leveraging Lessons from COVID-19 in Education
[…] that will best serve our children and communities in a post-pandemic world. In the first of a series of town hall virtual events, the Public School Forum of NC convened […]
Committee on Racial Equity
[…] Bus.”((Hahn, N. (2016, August 31). One district is combatting summer hunger by going on the road. Find out how. – EducationNC. Retrieved October 10, 2016, from https://www.ednc.org/2016/08/31/one-district-combatting-summer-hunger-going-road-find/)) 2. Create district […]
Friday Report – May 19, 2017
[…] Former Senator Howard Lee with Annual Education Award More than 400 educators, business leaders, government officials and supporters of public schools gathered at the Raleigh Convention Center last night to […]
Friday Report – June 1, 2018
This week in #nced: Education Budget Shocker Could Alter the Fundamentals of NC School Funding; NC ‘School Self-Defense Act’ Would Let Teachers Carry Handguns in School
Friday Report – January 4, 2019
This week in #nced: Governor Cites ‘Taxpayer-Funded Resegregation’ of Meck Schools in Veto of NC Bill, General Assembly Overrides Veto; Trump May Roll Back Obama School Discipline Rules, But 2 […]
Friday Report – April 26th, 2019
This week in #nced: Thousands of Teachers will March in Raleigh on May 1. Here are the Event Details; 26 School Districts Cancel Class Ahead of Teacher Rally in Downtown […]
Friday Report – May 3rd, 2019
This week in #nced: Teachers March on Raleigh to Ask for More Support for Their Students; House Budget Delays Raises Till January Because of ‘Availability’ of Funds
New Household Survey: North Carolina Is a ‘Top 10 State for Afterschool, ’ Even as Unmet Demand for Programs Increases
[…] by the Afterschool Alliance and released today. Nevertheless, unmet demand for programs – the percentage of North Carolina parents who say they would enroll their child in an afterschool program […]
The Final Word: Messages from North Carolina’s Regional Teachers of the Year
[…] teacher friends that live somewhere else in North Carolina,” and we’ve found it on the map and it’s just been wonderful, it’s been eye-opening to me to see how things […]
New analysis shows strong correlation between economic conditions and educational outcomes in North Carolina
[…] analysis was done using the Public School Forum’s NC Center for Afterschool Program’s annual Roadmap of Need report and highlights the unique challenges facing North Carolina’s most impoverished counties when […]
Friday Report – December 2, 2016
[…] funding issues. The Wake County schools that will get the extra flexibility are Bugg, Fox Road, Millbrook and Poe elementary schools and Carroll and East Millbrook middle schools in Raleigh; […]