North Carolina Education Intel

BEST NC's new interactive data explorer tool allows users to identify trends in education spending and examine relationships between per pupil expenditures and other district- and school-level data.

EdNC published an explainer on how data about North Carolina's students, teachers, classrooms, schools, and districts shapes education discussions statewide, covering everything from teacher pay to test scores to school report cards.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education maintains a public calendar for board meetings and activities.

The North Carolina Education Research Data Center, established in 2001 through a partnership between Duke's Center for Child & Family Policy and the NC Department of Public Instruction, stores and manages publicly accessible datasets for researchers and policymakers.

The annual report details student enrollment, teacher counts, and school data across North Carolina's public school system.

Category One (telecommunications and internet access) has higher discount rates and is essentially uncapped; Category Two (internal connections, managed services) has a five-year per-student budget cap. Mixing the categories on a single application typically delays funding by a full cycle.

The coordinator role is not honorary — federal regulations require the coordinator to coordinate the institution's compliance efforts, monitor outcomes, identify patterns, and ensure that grievance procedures are followed. Naming someone without giving them authority or time is a finding waiting to happen.

Federal IDEA gives parents specific rights — to consent or refuse evaluations, to participate in placement decisions, to request independent educational evaluations at district expense — that are routinely waived by signing a standard IEP without raising objections. Once signed, undoing a placement decision is procedurally heavy.