Education

Amid Republicans’ campaign to challenge books and censor classroom curriculums, a new poll found that voters are overwhelmingly opposed to the increased efforts to ban books.

According to a banned book report by PEN America that looked at the 2021-22 school year, there were 2,532 instances of individual books being banned in the U.S. That number includes 1,648 unique titles by 1,261 different authors, 290 illustrators and 18 translators.

Under the Biden administration’s new student debt relief plan, more than one million North Carolinians will be able to save thousands of dollars or even have their student loans forgiven.

Some may think that Republicans are anti-education, but the reality is that they’re anti-public education. The NCGOP will gladly take funds and put them toward private and charter schools.

State Republican lawmakers have once again refused to adequately fund public schools and pay our teachers and staff fair wages – and the NCGOP’s failures are leaving schools short on teachers.

Despite court rulings, nothing has changed, and nearly three decades have passed without every child in the state being afforded the opportunity to receive a good education.

Contrary to Republicans’ campaign to censor books and teachers, a majority of parents, across party lines, approve of their children’s schools and support what is currently being taught, according to a new poll.  The NPR and Ipsos poll found that 76 percent of the parents surveyed said they were well-informed about what their children were…