Liz Schlemmer
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Liz Schlemmer is WUNC's Education Policy Reporter, a fellowship position supported by the A.J. Fletcher Foundation. She has an M.A. from the UNC Chapel Hill School of Media & Journalism and a B.A. in history and anthropology from Indiana University.
She has previously served as a temporary Morning Edition producer and intern at WUNC and as a news intern at St. Louis Public Radio. Liz is originally from Indiana, where she grew up with a large extended family of educators.
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Many public schools couldn't afford to buy solar eclipse glasses for all students. Plus, the partial eclipse happened just as most schools were dismissing students at the end of the day. -
Governor Roy Cooper joined State Superintendent Catherine Truitt and Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson at the head of the boardroom. -
Morrow touts her 16 years of homeschooling experience and was formerly an emergency department nurse and Christian missionary. Morrow cast herself as more conservative than current NC Superintendent of Public Instruction Catherine Truitt. -
The teen fentanyl crisis is following students onto college campuses. Here's what students and staff are doing about it. -
At UNC-Chapel Hill, three students died from fentanyl poisoning in just the last two years. A student-led group is working to make overdose medication more available.
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North Carolina high schools have a new tool to track whether their graduates go to college and ultimately earn a degree. -
Historically Black colleges and universities are using federal COVID relief funds to cancel student debt, upgrade campus infrastructure and retain students who struggle because of financial barriers. -
North Carolina A&T State University has seen an almost six-fold increase in donations — and the fiscal year isn't even over yet. Other HBCUs are also reporting a fundraising boom. -
Staffing schools for in-person learning hasn't been easy. In North Carolina, the pressure to keep schools open during the coronavirus pandemic has left some teachers without any good options.
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The coronavirus has hit many day care centers across the country hard. It threatens a vulnerable workforce of mostly low-paid women who often don't have health insurance.
