A nonprofit group that has lobbied hard for a law to let corporations use money for private school tuition scholarships instead of taxes could get some of the revenue from the proposal.

State Senator Clark Jenkins has introduced a bill in the Senate to help Bear Grass Charter School get the facility they need in order to open up by this fall.

A North Carolina high school teacher has been suspended following the release of a YouTube video in which she is heard yelling at a student in class and telling him it's wrong to criticize President Barack Obama.

Lawmakers are looking at potentially changing the law on the school calendar again.

Heavy fog this morning has caused delays schools in some local counties.

University of North Carolina President Emeritus William Friday is in critical condition at UNC Hospitals.

Compared to 10 years ago, the numbers are staggering of just how many students are now taking AP courses nationwide.

A civil rights group says the time has come for the Pitt County School System to meet with them about school redistricting.

People who want to keep an eye on the the progress of their county's proposed new high school can do so at a meeting this Monday.

The Lenoir County School District is preparing to cut 22 positions in the upcoming year.

For years, Gac Filipaj mopped floors, cleaned toilets and took out trash at Columbia University.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has told University of North Carolina graduates that last week's gay marriage vote shows there is still a lot of work to be done for civil rights in this country.

Kelsey Griffith graduates on Sunday from Ohio Northern University. To start paying off her $120,000 in student debt, she is already working two restaurant jobs and will soon give up her apartment here to live with her parents.

A local high school student who has already founded his own software development firm is the recipient of a $10,000 scholarship from godaddy.com.

Governor Bev Perdue is scheduled to visit Sadie Saulter Elementary School in Greenville on Friday.

Maurice Sendak, who died early Tuesday in Danbury, Conn., at age 83, revolutionized children's books and how we think about childhood simply by leaving in what so many writers before had excluded.

Lauren Jackson is the North Carolina finalist for the Doodle for Google contest. She competed against 114,000 others for this honor.

We'll be watching what happens at a local school board meeting, where consolidating two schools is up for discussion.

Congratulations to the class of 2012! Today, 3,800 students will get their degrees from East Carolina University.

Jennifer Ramirez remembers it so vividly: the excitement, at 15, of having her first boyfriend. Then the fear, when she found out she was pregnant.

A so-called "step increase" for school personnel would cost tens of millions of dollars and likely equate to a 1.8 percent average raise for teachers.

Pitt Community College unveiled the new Construction and Industrial Technology Building, which is located near the Facilities Services Complex.

Darcy Grimes, a third grade teacher at Bethel Elementary School in Watauga County is the 2012-13 North Carolina Teacher of the Year.

The U.S. Justice Department says a proposal to change the way board members are elected in an Eastern Carolina school district would hurt minority voters.

It happened around 3:20 p.m. on Highland Drive, near Ridgewood Manor Nursing Home in Washington.