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Emily Walkenhorst

Raleigh

@WRAL enterprise team reporter covering Wake County + NC schools. Share your tips, docs, experiences and dog pics (!) to ewalkenhorst at https://t.co/MJ0SR2fov9

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  • NC lawmakers send new school cellphone bill to Stein. Here's what it would do

    1 day ago | wral.com | Emily Walkenhorst

    Every North Carolina school board would be required to restrict the use of cellphones and other wireless communication devices in schools, with a few exceptions, under legislation passed by the North Carolina General Assembly this week. It now goes to Governor Josh Stein's desk to potentially be signed into law. Stein has called for restricting cellphone use in schools.

  • Attorney General sends demand for answers to PowerSchool over hack affecting NC students, teachers

    2 days ago | wral.com | Emily Walkenhorst

    North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson has sent a demand letter to PowerSchool for answers regarding the December 2024 data breach that likely affected millions of the state's students and teachers. PowerSchool has since 2013 kept the data of all North Carolina schoolchildren and teachers. Their personal data was hacked into in December. Jackson announced in January that he would investigate the breach.

  • Wake school board set to debate first generative AI policy

    3 days ago | wral.com | Emily Walkenhorst

    WRAL 5 On Your Side's Keely Arthur talked with administrators and teachers to find out who's making sure artificial intelligence is being used as a study guide and not as a way to cheat. The Wake County Board of Education is set to debate its first generative artificial intelligence policy Wednesday, taking a step toward formalizing the district's approach to using the technology that's upending work and education worldwide.

  • Wake school board to get update on HVAC after year of dozens more school closures

    4 days ago | wral.com | Emily Walkenhorst

    Wake schools Superintendent Robert Taylor plans to give an update on the district's heating, ventilation and air conditioning Tuesday to the Wake County Board of Education. The district has struggled recently with more than 60 schools losing at least one day of school in the past two years because of malfunctioning HVAC that made for uncomfortable classroom conditions.

  • The price of a Wake school meal would go up, under proposal set for board vote

    4 days ago | wral.com | Emily Walkenhorst

    The price of a Wake County school meal would go up next year, under a proposal set for a vote Tuesday. The Wake County Board of Education is scheduled to weigh a proposal to raise the price of school breakfasts and lunches by $0.25 per meal. If the proposal passes, it would be the fourth straight year the school board has raised the price of a meal. The school system's nutrition department has said the increased costs of labor, goods and shipping has put a financial strain on the department.

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