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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Before the pandemic, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools searched high school students' bags to prevent guns from getting in. As the pandemic begins to abate and mass shootings rock the nation, North Carolina's House Education Committee took up a bill Tuesday that would mandate threat assessment teams in every public school and encourage them in private schools. State Rep. John Torbett, a Gaston County Republican who co-chairs the committee, says he believes the U.S. Secret Service has a plan that can head off school violence before it starts. "In my heart of hearts I...

North Carolina’s best-performing charter schools would have an easier time opening new campuses in challenging settings, under a bill that won endorsement from a state House committee. House Bill 616 won unanimous approval after less than three minutes of discussion Tuesday in the Education K-12 Committee. “The reason that we need a change is I don’t think it was ever the intent to discourage great charter schools from replicating in poor, underserved, or inner-city regions,” said Rep. John Torbett, R-Gaston. In addition to sponsoring H.B. 616, Torbett co-chairs the education committe...

Glen and Emily Stephens experienced the tragedy of a lifetime in 2012 when their 6-year-old son, Gabriel, died of complications from the flu. Gabriel had suffered from the physiological and neurological disorder Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome for years.  But when one door closed, another soon opened: Glen and Emily applied to be foster parents with the eventual goal of adoption. That’s when they met John, a 2-year-old boy removed from the home of his birth mother after being rushed to the emergency room with a hemorrhaged retina and active hydrocephalus.  John was later diagnosed with ...

North Carolina elected leaders finalized a directive on Thursday that will put more K-12 students in classrooms five days a week by telling all districts to offer in-person instruction no later than early April.

Even as a bill to reopen schools across North Carolina garnered unanimous bipartisan support and was fast-tracked through the legislature, North Carolina’s teacher’s union released a statement blasting Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and lawmakers from both political parties for the compromise. In a rare instance of bipartisan agreement, Cooper joined with both Republican and Democratic leaders in the N.C. House and Senate at a news conference Wednesday, March 10, to unveil a new school reopening plan for the entire state. Fewer than 24 hours later, Senate Bill 220 has won unanimous support fr...