Three local businesses sued the Cartetet County school system for adopting a calendar for the 2024-25 school year that doesn’t follow North Carolina’s school calendar law. News & Observer file ...

Deanna Kaplan, WS/FCS board chairwoman, said this when SB754 was filed: "I’m glad to see they have been listening and are ...

Amy Galey, an Alamance County Republican ... Statewide, a quarter of North Carolina’s school districts are defying the school calendar law by starting in mid-August. One of the reasons so ...

Wilkes Central has set its 2025 football schedule. The Eagles were 2-8 last season playing as a 2-A program in the Foothills Conference. The North Carolina High School Athletic Association doubled ...

North Carolina’s tourism industry supports letting schools start a week earlier in August in exchange for new penalties for districts that start classes even earlier.

A bill allowing more options for school calendars just moved forward in the North Carolina Senate. It’s called ‘school calendar flexibility: a new alternative.’ ...

The bill would let schools start up to a week earlier than current law allows. But school boards say that's only possible ...

One of the premiere bluegrass and country music festivals in the nation returns to Wilkes County this week.Wilkes County ...

More than 50 bills that would impact North Carolina community colleges have been filed by the General Assembly this year.

If Senate Bill 754 becomes law, the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools' Board of Education would have to agree to not start ...

Currently, state law requires schools across North Carolina ... calendars. "School districts definitely need more flexibility on the calendar," Joanna Pendleton, president of the Guilford County ...