Ann Doss Helms
Ann Doss Helms covers education for WFAE. She was a reporter for The Charlotte Observer for 32 years, including 16 years on the education beat. She has repeatedly won first place in education reporting from the North Carolina Press Association and won the 2015 Associated Press Senator Sam Open Government Award for reporting on charter school salaries.
She has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a master's in liberal arts from Winthrop University.
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North Carolina recently got a federal waiver from some year-end testing requirements, but that doesn’t mean students can skip those exams. Students will have to take state exams in May — and they have to be taken in person. -
Every year at school budget time, UNC Charlotte education professor Walter Hart hears a similar question: "Why do you need more money? You’ve got the lottery." Lottery money for education is never as much as many people expect it to be. Hart and two colleagues analyzed why that happens. -
As school districts across North Carolina prepare their budgets, tens of millions of public dollars are riding on whether — and where — the students who left public schools during the pandemic return. -
Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday urged all North Carolina school districts to offer students the chance to attend classes in person. "It's time to get our children back into classrooms," he said at a news conference with state Superintendent Catherine Truitt. -
North Carolina schools could forfeit millions of dollars in COVID-19 relief money that was earmarked for summer learning programs, State Auditor Beth Wood says. An audit released last week urges state education officials to keep better track of the emergency money. -
North Carolina health officials plan to pilot a COVID-19 testing program in public schools this month. -
This time last year, thousands of families were visiting huge "choice fairs" and spiling into schools across the Charlotte region for tours and open houses. But now the application season coincides with a resurgent pandemic. -
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board voted unanimously Tuesday to rename Vance High School in honor of Charlotte civil rights lawyer Julius Chambers. -
Gaston County commissioners voted 6-1 Monday night to move a Confederate monument that has stood in front of the courthouse since 1912. -
A group called "Retire the Red Raider" is lobbying the Gaston County school board to change the mascot for Belmont's South Point High School.
