Stories
February 8, 2026
Building Pathways from Classroom to Career for Underserved Students The statistics tell a sobering story: over 80% of high school dropouts cite the disconnect between […]
February 4, 2026
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Thousands of families in North Carolina’s most economically distressed counties will soon have more access to books and literacy supports through $10 million in two new […]
February 2, 2026
When students step into the SparkNC Lab at Southwest Edgecombe High School in the rural town of Pinetops, North Carolina, they’re immediately met with a question […]
January 30, 2026
When Charles Thomas looks back on his earliest memories of being at a library, he can still picture the narrow aisles of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library’s Independence Branch, […]
January 28, 2026
*Names changed to protect privacy. Every time Sarah* saw the school’s number flash on her phone, her heart clenched with dread. In that instant, the world […]
January 19, 2026
For 15-year-old Sandy Bressler, summers at Camp Judaea in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina have shaped more than just her childhood memories, they have […]
January 18, 2026
The messy middle of parenting is never easy. For Elizabeth and Stephen Meyer, who live in Knightdale, North Carolina, it’s been a winding journey through change, […]
January 16, 2026
The Leon Levine Foundation has launched the Carolina Career-Connected Learning Challenge, a multi-million-dollar RFP designed to expand career-connected learning opportunities for students in grades 7–14 across […]
December 9, 2025
When Oksana Feterosvkaya moved to North Carolina’s Triangle area from Uzbekistan in 2010 at 29 years old, she was trying to decide what she wanted to […]