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In a 2021 survey, more than 1 in 5 North Carolina students reported they seriously considered attempting suicide in the prior year. The rates were higher for girls and gay, lesbian and bisexual students.

The nonprofit NC GreenPower secured funding to install high-efficiency LED lighting in 60 school gyms as a sustainability effort.

In North Carolina, within the past year, people in some local districts are pushing to remove books from schools that focus on gender identity and racially sensitive subjects. This summer, ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ Youth Reporter William Townsend talked to teens in the Triangle who were directly impacted and spoke out against book bans in their communities.

Over the past decades, state funding for schools has fluctuated. To understand what that looks like, ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾'s education reporter Liz Schlemmer spoke with two veteran teachers.

The North Carolina Association of Educators is opposing a state plan to change how teachers are licensed and paid. Representatives for the teachers' association held a press conference Tuesday saying the plan might worsen, rather than alleviate, a growing teacher shortage.

The president of North Carolina's community college system is stepping down, as board members who lost confidence in him after barely 18 months on the job accepted his resignation.

Enrollment at public teaching colleges in North Carolina dropped over the past decade. The NC Teaching Fellows loan-forgiveness program once attracted education majors to colleges across the state. After the General Assembly ended and then resurrected the program, some participating schools are now seeing a rebound.

Students may be on summer break, but school principals are hard at work using these months to find a qualified, well-prepared teacher for every classroom come fall. Teacher turnover was higher than usual in some North Carolina districts this past year.

In August, an inaugural class of 150 high school students will move to the residential campus in the foothills of western North Carolina to begin their junior year. Its grand opening for summer programs is this week.

The initiative is focused on people aged 16 to 24 who struggled with staying in school or college during the pandemic.