Dr. Lauren Fox of the Public School Forum on NC’s top education issues

NC Newsline

At the start of the 2025 state legislative session, few needs in our state stand out as more obvious and dire than the ones we see in our public schools. From teacher pay to facilities to student well-being to the way we track performance in and demand accountability from the schools we fund, public education in our state continues to reel from almost a decade and a half of legislative neglect.

And while Republican legislative leaders continue to display little interest in reversing this pattern of neglect this year, the needs are no mystery. Indeed, the nonpartisan Public School Forum of North Carolina recently released a short, sweet and obvious list of public education priorities that would, if followed, make a huge and positive impact, and recently NC Newsline caught up with one of the experts who crafted it, the Forum’s Senior Director for Policy & Research, Dr. Lauren Fox.

Read the Top Education Issues for the current biennium.

Click here to listen to the full interview with Dr. Lauren Fox.