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As the head of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, the superintendent oversees the public school systems of the state. They also serve as the secretary of the North Carolina State Board of Education and are a member of the North Carolina Council of State. The incumbent is Mo Green, who became superintendent on January 1, 2025.
The Supreme Court heard competing legal arguments in the Leandro case over whether it should order additional funding for the state’s public schools.
The board sets policy and general procedures for public school systems across the state, including teacher pay and qualifications, course content, testing requirements, and manages state education funds. The North Carolina State Board of Education consists of the Lieutenant Governor, State Treasurer, and 11 members appointed by the Governor and ...
Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982), was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States struck down both a state statute denying funding for education of undocumented immigrant children in the United States and an independent school district's attempt to charge an annual $1,000 tuition fee for each student to compensate for lost state funding. [1]
Socratic questioning (or Socratic maieutics) [1] is an educational method named after Socrates that focuses on discovering answers by asking questions of students. According to Plato, Socrates believed that "the disciplined practice of thoughtful questioning enables the scholar/student to examine ideas and be able to determine the validity of those ideas". [2]
The police department suggested to local parents that they have their children assessed for possible abuse, and provided a list of recommended therapists. After repeated questioning by police and their parents, a small number of children made disclosures of abuse; other children made disclosures only after long periods of therapy, some lasting ...
Wake County voters will decide this fall on the nine members of the school board who set the policies for North Carolina’s largest school district. The two-week filing period opened on July 1 ...
The Human Resource Management System (HRMS) [4] is a part of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction which is overseen by the North Carolina State Board of Education. In the summer of 2000, the HRMS Steering Committee initiated the HRMS Web Project.