All Pieces for WUNC
Last school year, Thompson enrolled her three kids in North Carolina Virtual Academy (NCVA)—one of the state’s two virtual charter schools. Both ha...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 04:04
Nineteen of the state's lowest-performing schools are getting nearly $40 million in federal grants starting in January to improve student outcomes....
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: :34
One of the lesser known provisions of the sweeping 2013 voter ID law ended voter preregistration for 16 and 17-year-olds. Now that the Fourth Circu...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 03:50
Homeschooling is becoming more common, and studies suggest that military parents are more likely to homeschool their kids.
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 03:58
GLOW Academy is the state's first all-girls charter school. It opened its doors in Wilmington this school year and is part of a national network of...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 03:52
The elementary school hallway of Magellan Charter School. Magellan has one of the highest school performance grades in the state, but it also has a...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 03:52
Newly hired teachers and staff at a 2015 orientation for Wake County Public Schools. Small rural districts find it difficult to compete with Wake C...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: :35
Recent national surveys from the National School Supply and Equipment Association show teachers spend an average of $500 to nearly $1,000 a year ou...
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 03:49
Proposed budgets sets aside $10 million in bonuses for third-grade reading teachers whose student growth scores are in the top 25 percent of the s...
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 03:26
Senate Republicans have a plan to grow a large reserve fund for the Opportunity Scholarship Program.
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 03:54
Dozens of protesters gathered in downtown Raleigh to demand increased funding for public schools and expanded Medicaid. Police arrested fourteen te...
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: :40
Reductions in state funding have forced school districts across the state to cut millions from their budgets. But parents, employees and activists ...
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 02:57
In 2012, Tennessee lawmakers took a few of the state’s lowest-performing schools and put them in an "Achievement School District" (ASD). ASD school...
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 03:33
Not every student has equal access to AP classes, especially in rural districts. We take a loot at how Thomasville City Schools, a small district i...
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 03:40
Reema Khrais reports on how teacher retention issues impact low-performing schools.
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 04:01
Wildin David Guillen Acosta, 19, was detained by ICE on his way to school.
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 03:37
Teens in North Carolina are using the term "thirsty" these days, and they don't mean that they need a drink. The term refers to a specific behavior...
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 02:41
Lili Morales is a senior at Northern High School in Durham, N.C. As a part of WUNC's Youth Radio Project, she reports on the federal Deferred Actio...
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 02:43
When I was 15, my father was sentenced to three months in prison. I was one of the 2.7 million Americans under 18 with a parent who’s incarcerated.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 04:20
- Purchases: 1
Jamayah Parrish is a rising senior at Northern High School in Durham. As a part of WUNC's Youth Radio Project, she reports on teens who have found...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 1
