A lawsuit brought by a mom who argues that her children were denied their right to a sound education under the state constitution because of persistent sexual harassment and bullying at school should have been dismissed because the children’s ...

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WINSTON-SALEM (AP) A lawsuit filed against a North Carolina school system and its board of education says an elementary school in need of repairs was discriminated against because of race. The Winston-Salem Journal reports the lawsuit, filed Aug. 13 against the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County ...

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RALEIGH (AP) School districts across North Carolina will present next year’s funding requests in the coming weeks to local county commissioners, with the potential for costly and lengthy litigation if they can’t see eye-to-eye on spending. So the General Assembly’s ...

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After two decades fighting about public school funding for North Carolina’s poorest students, attorneys on both sides of a long-running lawsuit say it’s time for them to step away from the courtroom and leave ongoing disputes to a neutral outsider. ...

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Judges deciding a dispute over how North Carolina’s schools are run said Thursday that they face a difficult task in ruling on the power balance between legislators, the state school board and the statewide superintendent. The three-judge panel heard oral ...

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