Long before there was a Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh, four nuns and a priest from Newburgh, N.Y., came to North Carolina to open a school for Catholic children.

The new 2008 North Carolina School Report Cards were released Thursday, allowing parents to get a detailed look at conditions in their child's public school.

The Raleigh City Council has declared today to be "Cardinal Gibbons Day" in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Catholic high school.

The principal of East Chapel Hill High School said a gay-awareness club and its advisers violated school policy Wednesday by holding an assembly that hundreds of English students were required to attend.

The University of Phoenix, a large, for-profit university, will dedicate a learning center today in the Brier Creek area of Raleigh.

School board OKs other changes.

The economic stimulus plan that Congress has scheduled for a vote today would shower the nation's school districts, child care centers and university campuses with $150 billion.

The Wake Tech Foundation is launching its first program that will offer discounts on products and services to anyone who has completed a class at Wake Technical Community College.

Durham County commissioners have approved a $3 million reduction in funding for Durham schools after County Manager Mike Ruffin reached an agreement with School Superintendent Carl Harris.

On Tuesday, in Fletcher Opera Theater, a collection of $50,000 in new instruments sparked a roar from a crowd of children from four Triangle-area schools.

More Wake County students will likely be able to stay at their current schools without being separated from their brothers and sisters.

Amos Council Dawson Jr., a longtime education advocate who guided the merger of black and white teachers associations in North Carolina, died this week.

The attack adds to anxiety at the Wake County school that has experienced violent crimes recently.

Triangle Briefs: Johnston County schools Superintendent Tony Parker has been hired as superintendent of a district in South Carolina.

According to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, 1,487 teachers are certified in Wake, nearly 200 of them earning certification in 2008.

Families who favor sacrificing the Wake high school's magnet program in hopes of not being moved out of the school have so far dominated the debate.

The Wake County school board may decide today to remove the magnet program from Broughton High School to appease families who don’t want to be moved out of the school to make way for magnet students.

Police have charged a 17-year-old man with possessing a weapon at Athens Drive High School.

Triangle Briefs: Wake County school administrators announced Monday that the draft multiyear student assignment plan will be released 9 a.m. Saturday.

Triangle school officials are downplaying test results that show a dramatic statewide drop in the percentage of students passing state exams.

Wake County schools counted 131,621 students as classes started Monday, an increase of 3.3 percent over attendance on the first day of school last year.

Dennis Whitling gets probation and is disbarred for embezzling from law firm.

North Carolina was the butt of jokes in 1996 for having the 48th average SAT score in the nation, just three rungs from the bottom.

Wake County school board tentatively approves increasing budget request by $54.7 million.

This is the content of a letter sent home with students from Enloe High School from Principal Beth Cochran.

Moving from the comforts of a traditional school schedule to the fear of the unknown in a year-round school schedule can cause emotions that run from exciting to terrifying.

Frustrated over student reassignments, Garner town leaders have asked their attorney whether they can sue the county school board to keep more Garner children closer to home.