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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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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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. -
School districts would have to submit their plans for virtual academies to the state board of education for approval, and could enroll no more than 15 percent of their total student population in a virtual program. -
The state budget law requires the UNC System staff to move from Chapel Hill to Raleigh by the end of this year at a cost of $15 million over four years. Lawmakers tucked the plan into the final budget bill without public discussion. -
This fall marks 25 years since charter schools first began opening in North Carolina. They now serve almost 9% of all public school students. -
Teacher turnover. Burnout. Short-staffed schools. After two years in a pandemic, for many people, life is getting back to some semblance of normal. With the end of virtual classes and mask mandates, schools are also returning to their pre-pandemic routines — but teachers say schools are not back to normal. -
The UNC-Chapel Hill Faculty Council has approved a resolution to undertake a 20-year initiative to study and improve equitable pay for faculty. The resolution seeks to reduce wage gaps between male and female professors and across different races. -
School transportation coordinators say the recent surge in fuel prices is making it more expensive to buy diesel to power buses, and that's pinching school budgets. -
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.
