Liz Schlemmer
Education ReporterLiz Schlemmer is 吉彩网网站's K-12 Education Reporter. She has previously served as the Fletcher Fellow for Education Policy Reporting at 吉彩网网站 and as the education reporter at Louisville Public Media.
She holds a M.A. from the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at UNC-Chapel Hill and a B.A. in history from Indiana University. Liz is originally from rural Indiana, where she grew up with a large extended family of educators.
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Scientists and graduate students from across the NC Triangle gathered Friday to protest federal funding cuts to their research. -
The bill would study five districts with the most students in the state: Wake County Schools, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Guilford County Schools, Winston-Salem/Forsyth and Cumberland County Schools. -
U.S. Department of Education funding cuts are affecting teacher recruitment in NC schools. Wake County educators say their program recruited teachers of all races and training was not DEI-focused. -
A House committee approved a bill to require public schools to create policies that restrict students from using cell phones in class. A similar bill is also moving in the Senate. -
Five years after the pandemic, 101 North Carolina public school districts still have fewer students than before. Falling enrollment appears here to stay, but school choice isn鈥檛 the only reason why. -
In 2019, the state set a goal for 2 million North Carolinians to have a college degree or industry credential by 2030. The state has been closing the gap, but isn鈥檛 there yet. -
The state health plan board voted to allow the plan to charge state employees different premiums based on their salaries. The board will set monthly prices later this year. -
The State Board of Education voted 9-to-2 to request a moratorium on new spending for Opportunity Scholarship vouchers as part of its budget request to the General Assembly. -
Educators and other state employees began noticing these changes in January, after the state health plan switched administrators from Blue Cross Blue Shield to Aetna. -
Maurice 鈥淢o鈥� Green is the first African American state superintendent in North Carolina鈥檚 history and the first Democrat in the office in eight years. His friends describe him as a quiet leader and a defender of public schools, educators, and students.
