Ann Doss Helms
Ann Doss Helms covers education for WFAE. She was a reporter for The Charlotte Observer for 32 years, including 16 years on the education beat. She has repeatedly won first place in education reporting from the North Carolina Press Association and won the 2015 Associated Press Senator Sam Open Government Award for reporting on charter school salaries.
She has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a master's in liberal arts from Winthrop University.
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In a road trip to Gaston County, Rep. John Torbett says his panel on education is hearing about teacher pay, restructuring classes and changing North Carolina's school calendar law. -
A North Carolina House committee studying the future of public education will hold a public hearing in Monroe on Monday. Legislators will also talk with officials from Union County Public Schools. -
Cabarrus County Schools and Atrium Health will open a new early college high school in August. It lets students earn free credits and prepare for health science careers. -
The first year of the pandemic brought no spike in North Carolina teachers leaving their jobs, a new report shows. But it doesn't account for what has happened since March 2021 as COVID-19 continued for a second year. -
A potentially groundbreaking report on exactly how much North Carolina’s students fell behind during the disrupted 2020-21 school year will be presented to the state Board of Education this week. -
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper Thursday vetoed a bill that blocks public schools from mandating masks for students, saying it thwarts local control. It comes as most districts are voluntarily ending their mask mandates. -
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board voted unanimously Tuesday to end the district's mask mandate on March 7. Three members wanted to move faster. -
For the second time this month, a North Carolina House committee on the future of public education Monday postponed discussion of teacher pay and benefits.
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Advocates on the right and left say this year’s school board campaigns will be ground zero in America’s culture wars. The conservative North Carolina… -
North Carolina Superintendent Catherine Truitt told state legislators Monday that neither the state’s standardized exams nor the school performance grades that are based on them do a good job of measuring school quality. A committee is studying the future of education.
