Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has been slower than Guilford County to roll out tutoring to help students recover from pandemic setbacks. That has some county officials and community advocates worried.
Gov. Cooper announced the plan to combat K-12 staff shortages brought on by a surge of COVID-19 cases. The strategy is intended to keep students in classrooms for in-person instruction where the experts say they learn best.
Culture war crusaders in a North Carolina county have escalated their battle against an imagined enemy “critical race theory” with a disturbing campaign of racist and misogynistic threats against Black public school administrators. Guilford County Superintendent Sharon Contreras, a former top contender for the role of education secretary in President Biden’s cabinet, has been relentlessly targeted in a trail of nasty emails that have landed in.