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The Wake school board is debating whether to cut its budget or ask for more money from commissioners to increase the pay raises.

Toshiba Rice was chosen over Tammy Martin on the third round of voting.

For Jack Turnwald, a transgender resident of a small, suburban town in Wake County, North Carolina, it was as if their life had become a movie -- and not in a good way. Turnwald, who uses they/them pronouns, had recently moved from liberal Durham to more conservative Holly Springs to be with their wife and children. "I joke that it felt a little like being in 'Footloose,' like I had danced on the wrong side of the railroad tracks," Turnwald said about speaking in favor of the measure at a town council meeting, comparing themselves to the character in the 1980s movie who t...

The new policy would replace vague rules that say school employees can only accept ‘token gifts of insubstantial value.’

Though some school systems already have made changes, the state superintendent says schools can’t meet the Sept. 15 deadline for implementing the many new requirements in the law.