It’s been years since the legislature allocated $1.5 million to install “panic alarms” in schools as a safety measure, but the state agencies overseeing the project haven’t yet spent any of the money to install alarm systems.

North Carolina has had a lot of blue-ribbon panels looking to chart the future of education in our state. And the downside of bringing together a lot of diverse viewpoints is that often the final recommendations end up full of vague platitudes in an effort to avoid areas of disagreement.

The UNC System is having a different sort of trouble with its campus construction projects: Labor shortages and supply chain issues driving up costs.

Thanks to major construction spending in this year’s state budget, North Carolina’s 58 community colleges are getting $400 million over the next four years. But managing to spend that money could take some legislative tweaks during the upcoming short session.

Nearly a year after U.S. Rep. Alma Adams introduced legislation to create a grant program to update HBCU campuses, two of her Republican colleagues in the North Carolina delegation have signed on as co-sponsors.

Republicans haven’t been happy with the judge overseeing the Leandro education funding lawsuit, so it’s no surprise that the Republican N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby has picked a new judge for the case.

The House committee charged with determining the future of education spent Monday evening in Union County hearing success stories from the local public school system, community college and private university.

The UNC System Office’s chief operating officer – a key lieutenant to President Peter Hans – is leaving for a new job as the University of Texas System’s new executive vice chancellor for business affairs.

Several members of the UNC Board of Governors voiced concerns Thursday about the speedy timeline the legislature mandated for the UNC System Office to move its headquarters to Raleigh.

Lynette Mitchell’s small Chapel Hill child care center had reopened from Christmas break for just a few hours when she got the call: One of the kids there had tested positive for COVID-19.

Cybersecurity is a big and growing deal. Every week, there are stories about some hackers breaking in and stealing data, or extorting money from companies with ransomware attacks. This struck close to home last spring when a cyberattack led to the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline, and we ran short...