Liz Schlemmer
Education ReporterLiz Schlemmer is WUNC's K-12 Education Reporter. She has previously served as the Fletcher Fellow for Education Policy Reporting at WUNC and as the education reporter at Louisville Public Media.
She holds a M.A. from the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at UNC-Chapel Hill and a B.A. in history from Indiana University. Liz is originally from rural Indiana, where she grew up with a large extended family of educators.
Twitter: LSchlemmer_WUNC
Email: lschlemmer@wunc.org
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In Morrisville, about 200 students walked out at noon at Wake Early College of Information and Biotechnologies to advocate for gun control measures and safer schools. -
North Carolina's high school graduation rate set a record high last spring and students' scores on state exams were the highest they've been in 3 years in most subjects. -
As school testing data is released this week, Superintendent Green's new strategic plan calls for a redesign of the A-F letter grades schools receive. -
Here's a guide on how to read the annual report card the state gives your schools — and why it's useful to look beyond the school's letter grade. -
A group of North Carolina educators is organizing campaigns to challenge incumbent state lawmakers in next year's Republican primary elections. -
Anticipating the law, many school boards passed policies last spring that now may need to be revised to include stricter language and consequences. -
Due South explores how public schools are funded. County, state and federal dollars provide for capital projects, teacher salaries and per pupil spending. But that spending has long remained stagnant, and districts are feeling the budgetary crunch. -
The mini budget continues funding to help eligible schools keep offering free school meals to all their students, but advocates hope for more to make school meals affordable. -
A group of colleges and universities have joined a new direct admission program that's poised to change how high schoolers across the state navigate college admissions. -
State Superintendent Maurice "Mo" Green has presented his final strategic plan. Green says he wants NC public schools to become the best in the nation, and the plan defines metrics.
