Education costs snag more than half of NC’s $34.4B state budget

Colleges get more money for workforce development, athletic departments in NC budget

North Carolina’s new state budget provides some realignment for the state's colleges and universities, reflecting higher enrollment, a greater emphasis on workforce readiness, and a need to cut costs at the university level.

High Schools Emphasizing Personal Finance Education

39 US states now require students to complete a personal finance course to graduate, up from just one state in 1998. Senior Advocacy Director for the Council for Economic Education Leslie Finnan explains that students who take these courses tend to make better financial decisions, have higher credit scores, and manage student loans more responsibly. Bloomberg This Weekend's Lisa Mateo also spoke with Brooklyn Preparatory High School Assistant Principal and Financial Literacy Educator Diana Isern about the curriculum of a modern finance class. (Source: Bloomberg)

UT Trustees Approve Budget, New Degree Programs And Fee Increases

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The University of Tennessee Board of Trustees has approved the university's fiscal year 2027 budget, keeping in-state undergraduate...

States Need Better Adult Learner Strategies

States Need Better Adult Learner Strategies Joshua.Bay Fri, 07/10/2026 - 03:00 AM More than 43 million Americans have college credits but no credential. A new report from ReUp Education outlines how states can improve efforts to re-engage them. Byline(s) Joshua Bay

Column: Teacher pension problems continue to get bigger – Champaign News-Gazette

“When you hear framings like ‘schools are underfunded’ or ‘schools are overfunded,’ usually those are missing the point. It’s that a growing share of what we already spend never reaches students, and until that problem is directly confronted, even the largest tax increases will struggle to deliver on their stated promises,” write Joshua Rauh and Gregory Kearney of Stanford’s Hoover Institute.