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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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  • School meal prices, revenues once again before Wake school board

    4 days ago | wral.com | Emily Walkenhorst

    Cindy Long, administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service (left), and Wake County Public School System Superintendent Robert Taylor (right) eat lunch with fourth-graders at Kingswood Elementary on June 4, 2024. Long and Taylor met with state and local leaders to talk about improving access to healthy meals for schoolchildren.

  • Wake school board plans final vote Tuesday on first-ever districtwide cellphone policy

    4 days ago | wral.com | Emily Walkenhorst

    The Wake County school board is scheduled for a final vote on its first-ever districtwide cellphone policy Tuesday night. It would require phones to be silenced and put away and smartwatches to be disconnected from smartphones.

  • Wake schools developing a generative AI policy for students and staff

    1 week ago | wral.com | Emily Walkenhorst

    Wake County students and staff would learn skills for using artificial intelligence and other digital tools under a policy being drafted by the public school system. System leaders want students and staff to understand how to properly use artificial intelligence, and they're hashing out the details on when and how to use the technology.

  • After the PowerSchool hack: What are NC's cybersecurity standards?

    2 weeks ago | wral.com | Flynn Snyder |Emily Walkenhorst

    North Carolina schools are preparing to move troves of student and teacher data from the recently hacked PowerSchool into a new system in the coming weeks, Infinite Campus. The new system must be vetted for cybersecurity, the same way PowerSchool was, under North Carolina law. Infinite Campus has met those compliance standards, according to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, just like PowerSchool did.

  • NC House passes spending plan, setting up showdown with Senate

    2 weeks ago | wral.com | Paul Andy Specht |Emily Walkenhorst |Will Doran

    A new $32 billion budget plan to fund state employee raises, eliminate thousands of jobs throughout state government, enact new tax cuts and raise college tuition passed the North Carolina House of Representatives on Wednesday. The House passed the plan 93-20, with some Democrats saying it doesn’t do enough to fund North Carolina’s growing list of needs. It’s the latest step in the long process of approving a state spending plan.

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9 Mar 25

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29 Sep 24

RT @BlueRidgePublic: The full picture of devastation is emerging from Hurricane Helene’s disastrous path through Western North Carolina. T…

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15 Aug 23

RT @murphsturph: Centennial Authority board approves agreements with Hurricanes for renovations, lease extension and development around PNC…