A Wake County teacher has launched an online tool to help teachers calculate how much money they've lost over their careers due to inflation.

Field trips to plantations look a little different for Nash Central High School's APUSH class.

The Wake County school board has voted to use local funds to reinstate master's degree pay for teachers and social workers who would have qualified under a repealed state law. The board also approved additional bonuses to reward bus drivers for perfect attendance.

To have a career in teaching, every beginning teacher must first pass a test. More than 1,000 teachers have struggled to pass their exams on time, including this art teacher in Cumberland County Schools.

Education reporter Liz Schlemmer recounts her experiences covering the teacher shortage that has been hitting North Carolina schools over the last several years 鈥� and why it matters so much for students to have teachers physically with them in the classroom.

High school students would be required to take a computer science class to graduate, under a bill that passed a North Carolina House committee Thursday.

An analysis by The Associated Press, Stanford University鈥檚 Big Local News project and Stanford education professor Thomas Dee found 230,000 students in 21 states who have gone missing from schools. They did not move out of state, and did not sign up for private school or home-school.

North Carolina's Republican-controlled Senate has passed a bill requiring teachers to alert parents in most circumstances before calling a student by a different name or pronoun. Sponsors say the bill is needed to keep parents informed about what their children are being taught in public schools. Critics say it would make schools unsafe spaces for LGBTQ and questioning children to explore their identities.

The bill up for debate Tuesday would require public school personnel to alert parents before calling their child by a different name or pronoun and prohibit instruction about gender identity and sexuality in K-4 classrooms.

Clark Riemer, chief of staff to Rep. Jason Saine, and Rob Schofield, director of NC Policy Watch, review the week in North Carolina politics.