This week’s announcement that coding school The Iron Yard plans to shut down its 15 locations nationwide, including in Raleigh and Durham, is a sign that an industry that had been growing by leaps and bounds is hitting some speed bumps.
Expanded school choice is increasing enrollment in North Carolina’s charter schools, private schools and home schools as fewer students attend public schools.
An $11 million donation will go toward building an operating a 68-foot oceangoing research vessel. It will be used by researchers at Duke University’s marine lab in Beaufort, N.C.
Video: Thales Academy is benefiting from the trend and offers instruction from Pre-K to 12th grades through the use of Direct Instruction and a Classical Curriculum.
The NC Board of Education will ask the state Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a court decision last week upholding a new law that concentrated control of education under Superintendent Mark Johnson.
Board of Education Chairman Bill Cobey said he was disappointed in the three-judge panel decision in favor of a new law that gives Superintendent Mark Johnson more power.
The lake, which accidentally drained in March when a pipe failed, will be restored thanks to $400,000 in donations from Meredith College alumnae. Meredith President Jo Allen hopes to start the project in September and have it completed by January.
Recently resigned Shaw President Tashni Dubroy took home a top honor from the 2017 Historically Black Colleges and Universities awards in Washington, D.C. Friday.
A three-judge panel says state Superintendent Mark Johnson should have the powers over day-to-day operations that a new law gives him. The judges rejected the State Board of Education argument that the law is unconstitutional. The board could appeal.
A study by scientists at N.C. State University wanted to know how bees will handle the heat produced by cities and suburbs and found that nearly all species fared worse in warmer locations. The study suggests climate change could harm bee populations.
