- Leoneda Inge talks to UNC Chapel Hill associate professor of public policy Fenaba Addo about the adverse impact of student loan borrowing.
- Leoneda Inge sits down with NCCU's director of scholarships and student aid to discuss student loans and financial planning.
- Efforts to mandate Asian American Pacific Islander history in North Carolina schools continue to be stalled on the state level. Meanwhile, Green Hope High School in Cary plans to pilot the Asian American history elective for Wake County Public Schools this fall.
- Just a month after Helene ravaged western North Carolina last fall, state lawmakers approved recovery funding that included $5 million for "increased mental health services" for students and staff in affected school districts. Six months later, much of that money has not been used.
- The House ed a bill this week to make major changes to North Carolina's math requirements for high school graduation, just ahead of the deadline to keep the bill in play this legislative session.
- At the time, PowerSchool assured educators that all the affected data had been destroyed.
- The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is partnering with Hazel Health and UnitedHealthcare to provide virtual mental health services for thousands of K-12 students.
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter and NCCU commencement speaker Ernie Suggs talks about his deep North Carolina ties and his hopes for the next generation of journalists.
- Even after requesting $40 million more in county funding, the district's proposed budget would make more than $18 million in cuts and spend down its rainy day fund.
- Federal grants from the U.S. Department of Education will not continue at Wake County Public Schools and UNC-Chapel Hill due to the Trump istration's cancellation of federal funding for mental health services.
- Trump istration funding cuts are ending a program that put $5 million of local produce on the lunch trays of students across North Carolina this year.
- Durham County’s Head Start and Early Head Start Programs could lose $16 million in federal funding.