Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools

A handful of determined history teachers created the course from scratch with a goal of teaching students about women’s contributions and experiences that rarely make it into traditional history textbooks. 

Hundreds of teachers, students and parents gathered inside of the Mount Tabor High School auditorium Monday night for the third stop on State Superintendent Mo Green’s listening tour, called “Mo Wants to Know.” 

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday aiming to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. State and local officials are working to determine what the impact will be on North Carolina’s public schools. 

Five years ago, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Chief Academic Officer Paula Wilkins was faced with one of the biggest questions of her career: How do you keep a school afloat through a pandemic? She shares lessons in this installment of Echoes of the Pandemic.

A federal policy change allowing immigration enforcement officers to make arrests at schools may be contributing to dips in student attendance in Winston-Salem.