by Melissa Zenz | Mar 5, 2024 | News
As part of our efforts toward achieving our Workforce strategic goal, our Executive Director, Emily Nicholson, is serving on the planning committee for the WNC Career Expo. The event will include a special field trip opportunity for our region’s high school...
by Melissa Zenz | Feb 11, 2024 | News
For National School Counseling Week 2024 (February 5-9, 2024), we are taking the opportunity to celebrate our region’s school counselors and to dig into the data on how our districts are doing in attaining the recommended ratios of students to school counselors....
by Melissa Zenz | Feb 2, 2024 | News
We first learned about this report from EdNC’s article New Interactive Map Shows How Learning Loss and Academic Recovery Varied by District in N.C. Check out their reporting for more on the state-level analysis. A new report from Education Recovery Scorecard...
by Melissa Zenz | Jan 31, 2024 | News
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NC DPI) recently released its 2022-2023 CTE Credential Attainment Report. One stunning achievement is that more than 325,000 credentials were earned by career and technical education (CTE) high school students in...
by Melissa Zenz | Dec 7, 2023 | News
Before the launch of the Better FAFSA for the 2024-2025 award year, we wanted to check in on the FAFSA completion rates in our region’s high schools. We used the NC FAFSA Tracker to obtain data for public high schools in our four counties. You can learn more...