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For $20, kids can buy a better grade

Selling candy didn't raise much money last year, so a Goldsboro middle school is selling grades.

Wake schools to take new path

A new school board majority that wants to end busing for diversity will bring changes as soon as next school year.

Illegal immigrants can pursue degrees

Illegal immigrants will again be able to get two-year degrees in North Carolina, the State Board of Community Colleges decided Friday.

Wake gives 1,600 teachers a small raise

In the face of larger class sizes, layoffs and frozen salaries across the state, about 1,600 Wake County teachers will get a small pay raise this year.

State campuses to cut 900 jobs

The 16-campus UNC system expects to eliminate about 900 administrative positions this year, an acknowledgement by university leaders of job growth gone wild.

Learning with less in schools

Parents, students and especially teachers must adjust to budget cuts

UNC chancellors defend leave policy

A policy that guarantees administrators a one-year leave at full pay when they step down from their posts is a critical recruitment tool, the chancellors of five of North Carolina's public universities said Thursday.

Wake schools rehire many who were let go

RALEIGH -- Wake County school leaders are warning that larger class sizes and fewer courses will still be common even though they've rehired more than 900 of the nearly 1,500 teachers and other employees let go this summer.

Math whiz hopes method will go forth, multiply

On a yellow scratch pad, Albert Clay works out a math problem that can stump a calculator -- and all of the ciphering occurs inside his white-haired head.

New tool for the college interview: a webcam

The sweaty-palmed college interview just got a little more comfortable at Wake Forest University.