Liz Schlemmer
Education ReporterLiz Schlemmer is ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾'s K-12 Education Reporter. She has previously served as the Fletcher Fellow for Education Policy Reporting at ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ 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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Democratic candidate Mo Green has won the race to be North Carolina's state superintendent of public instruction, defeating Republican Michele Morrow. -
There's less public data on the Opportunity Scholarship program today than there was ten years ago. Meanwhile, state lawmakers could add billions more dollars to fund it. -
Buncombe County Schools reopen Friday. School employees have been working around the clock to repair schools and prepare to serve students after a difficult month. -
Helene damaged more than 200 child care centers in western North Carolina, and at least 55 of the hardest-hit centers are expected to remain closed for months. -
¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ education reporter Liz Schlemmer tells co-host Jeff Tiberii about her recent reporting on one western North Carolina school community coping with life after the floods. -
In McDowell County, at the eastern base of the Blue Ridge Mountains, students from Old Fort Elementary are returning to class Monday – but not to their school building. -
“Our school systems will be some of the first school systems in the nation to offer this type of leave," said Governor Roy Cooper's education adviser Geoff Coltrane. -
State education officials plan to request more than $150 million from the state as initial relief to public schools damaged by Helene in western North Carolina. -
One of the down ballot races in North Carolina gaining national attention this year is the contest for state superintendent. Democrat Mo Green and Republican Michele Morrow are both political newcomers, and their politics couldn't be further apart. -
More than 84,000 North Carolina students took an exam for an Advanced Placement class last school year and passed to earn college credit, setting a record high.
