As school districts across North Carolina compete for teachers, two Burke County school board members will spend the next six months developing strategies they hope can strengthen recruitment and retention locally.
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When the Burke County Public Schools district learned early in the 2025-26 school year that they’d be working against a $4.6 million deficit due to declining enrollment, they started planning ahead, making cuts and slimming their spending in every area that they could afford.
Burke County Public Schools is facing a projected $4.5 million deficit for the 2026–27 school year due to declining enrollment, state funding formulas tied to prior-year student counts, and losses to charter and voucher programs, which reduce revenue while fixed costs remain.
The Jane Doe lawsuit against the Burke County Public Schools (BCPS) Board of Education, two former principals, and a former superintendent may be slowing to a crawl.
Budget planning season generally falls in January and February, but Burke County Public Schools (BCPS) administrators say they’ve been proactive, reviewing, reducing, and reusing as early as possible.
As local high school students poured into the lunchroom on Friday, conversation starter cards greeted them at each table, inviting kids to get…
How does BCPS define “layoffs” in this context, and what distinction does the district draw between layoffs and the staffing reduction mechani…
Burke County settled on a vendor for installation of 13 OPENGATE weapons detection systems in Burke County Public Schools (BCPS), leaving nearly $244,000 of grant money available for future safety expenditures.
Parent engagement isn’t limited to punishments and reactive policies.
Last Monday, Jan. 5, three separate guardians took the stand in district court, facing charges for their children’s truancy. One guardian, a grandmother, left the courtroom in handcuffs and spent the night in jail.
