Updated: 9:59 AM Three high schools in the East made a list of the state's top turnaround schools, based on high student performance.

Updated: 6:27 AM The Department of Justice is now reviewing Beaufort County's proposed new school districts.

Posted: 9:04 AM Outstanding student loans in the U.S. will exceed one trillion dollars this year for the first time ever.

Updated: 4:50 PM The Highway Patrol says no charges will be filed against the Jacksonville man who was driving the car.

Updated: 7:51 PM The Pactolus Elementary School student is now facing juvenile charges after two steak knives were found in his book bag Friday morning.

Updated: 6:28 AM The Beaufort County school system is the latest to wade into the waters of redistricting.

Updated: 11:08 AM Less than two weeks after the principal of a Beaufort County school resigned, an assistant principal at the school has also stepped down.

Updated: 10:00 AM Raising money for education and having fun brought folks together Tuesday night to test their spelling skills.

Posted: 7:49 PM Gov. Beverly Perdue is asking state legislators to find another $30 million she says is required by a judge's order to provide pre-kindergarten education to all at-risk 4-year-olds.

Posted: 6:02 AM A Wayne County principal has received high marks from a national organization as the state's most distinguished principal.

Updated: 11:41 AM Government budget-cutting and tough family finances are forcing hundreds of students to drop out of North Carolina public universities due to lack of money, delaying or ending their progress toward a prosperous career.

Posted: 4:00 AM California Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday signed a bill giving illegal immigrant college students access to state-funded financial aid, the second half of two-part legislation known as the "Dream Act."

Posted: 4:49 AM A Camp Lejeune elementary school with a name to honor all military heroes will be dedicated Friday.

Updated: 11:20 AM J.H. Rose High School will be having Pink Day for its students Friday in support of cancer research.

Updated: 2:15 AM An assistant principal at W.A. Pattillo School in Tarboro apprehended the student this morning as he got off a school bus.

Updated: 11:47 PM WITN's Dave Jordan emceed the 46th annual Eastern North Carolina Vocational Center banquet Thursday night. It was a night of inspiration to remember.

Posted: 5:55 AM A key Republican budget-writer is predicting the number of job losses in North Carolina public school classrooms actually will be much less than the 1,800 reported to state educators as school began in August.

Updated: 7:55 PM A student has been arrested in connection with Monday's evacuation at a community college in Pasquotank County.

Updated: 12:42 PM The school system says all of its schools dismissed at noon because of the power outage.

Updated: 11:29 AM The recent rainy weather caused some mold issues for one Lenoir County school.

Posted: 7:19 AM Federal grant money worth nearly $19 million will be distributed to nine North Carolina community colleges to fund job training and development programs aimed at helping unemployed workers.

Posted: 11:11 AM The body was found Monday morning in a bus parked outside High Point Central High School.

Posted: 3:23 AM The potato is on the verge of being virtually banished from the nation's school lunch program, but not if Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Mark Udall of Colorado have anything to say about it.

Updated: 9:51 PM Richlands Elementary School in Onslow County is making a comeback from Hurricane Irene. Hurricane Irene damaged part of the building so badly they were not usable.

Updated: 4:26 PM There are two new members on the East Carolina University Board of Trustees.