Turning its attention to school discipline issues, an N.C. House education committee heard four success stories from across the state on Monday.

As the legislature held more no-vote sessions on Thursday before adjourning until late September, legislative Democrats held a news conference to call for immediate access to address a shortage of teachers as the new school year begins.

The N.C. House’s new Select Committee on Advancing Women in STEM kicked off Wednesday with a meeting at SAS Institute’s sprawling campus in Cary.

Attorney General Josh Stein filed a petition with the U.S. Department of Justice to allow student debt relief for former students of the defunct Charlotte School of Law. The for-profit law school shut down in 2017 following accreditation and other problems.

In an unusual response to N.C. Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls’ refusal to recuse herself in the Leandro case, attorneys for legislative leaders filed a request Tuesday asking the judges to remove her former client from the case.

It says a lot about the state of the office real-estate market that the UNC System Office is getting its new home through a sublease of one of downtown Raleigh’s newest buildings.

Just how well can one boss manage 50 or more direct reports? That’s the average number of direct reports a school principal has in North Carolina, according to a presentation to lawmakers Monday from BEST NC, an education advocacy group led by business leaders.

Former UNC Board of Governors Chairman Harry Smith gave a no-holds-barred interview with my colleague David Mildenberg on this week’s Chatter With BNC podcast. Much of the episode discusses the business career of Smith, who leads the air filtration company Pamlico Air and the private equity firm Rise Capital.

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While the state’s community college system board reportedly encouraged President Thomas Stith to resign this week, the UNC System Board of Governors seems to be quite happy with its leader.

Former Rep. Leo Daughtry’s sudden departure from the UNC Board of Governors left some wondering if he was forced off the board. He said this week that he wasn’t asked to resign, but alluded to the recent controversies he’d spoken out about.

The position of state controller doesn’t get much attention, but as the Senate began the confirmation process for Gov. Roy Cooper’s nominee, Nels Roseland, Sen. Kathy Harrington made the case that “of all the positions that come before this body for confirmation, this position may be the most important.”