Carli Brosseau
@carlibrosseau.bsky.social
K-12 education reporter at The Assembly NC, a magazine that produces longform journalism about North Carolina. Tender of plants and animals, baker of bread.
Education staff are being scattered across several other federal agencies. Despite the Trump administration's claims, employees say it's adding bureaucracy and making it harder to serve students. n.pr/3TS9SAR
The Education Dept. hasn't been dismantled. It's become more inefficient, staff say
Education staff are being scattered across several other federal agencies. Despite the Trump administration's claims, employees say it's adding bureaucracy and making it harder to serve students.
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EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of pages of newly released FBI documents shed light on the agency's role in the Greensboro Massacre. Two Klansman, including one who was a former FBI informant, separately warned the agency about the potential for violence. (paywalled) www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
Bombshell memo on horrific race massacre exposes complicit FBI: 'They lied like crazy'
GREENSBORO, N.C. — In July 1979, a North Carolina Ku Klux Klan leader named Joe Grady summoned two FBI agents to a Waffle House to warn them “about possible violence in the future.”Earlier that month,...
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Wake County Commissioners Green-light WakeMed-Atrium Merger After four months of public deliberation and some additional concessions from the state’s largest hospital system, commissioners voted 5-2 for changes that will allow the deal to go through.
Wake County Commissioners Green-light WakeMed-Atrium Merger
After four months of public deliberation and some additional concessions from the state’s largest hospital system, commissioners voted 5-2 for changes that will allow the deal to go through.
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After spending most of the previous 100 years in the minority, North Carolina Republicans swept the 2010 elections and seized control of the General Assembly. They’ve largely dictated the state’s policy agenda ever since. Are we better off? www.theassemblync.com/special-repo...
The State of Our State
From wages and taxes to schools, housing, health care, and crime, here's where North Carolina has gained—and lost—ground since 2010, by the numbers.
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"She and several of her soon-to-be former colleagues were cut just hours before they were scheduled to be honored for their work at a North Carolina Press Association awards ceremony."
Brett LoGiurato@brettlogiurato.bsky.social · 2w agoI wrote about the massacre at McClatchy, a rough day that saw newsrooms gutted from Charlotte to Miami to Sacramento. Through it all, McClatchy is still implausibly claiming it remains "deeply committed to local journalism." www.status.news/p/mcclatchy-...
There are options when it comes to saving local journalism. For example, AB 2222 is waiting for Newsom's signature in California. I really hope Northwest states follow the lead of Rebuild Local News. Something like this would be a game changer: www.rebuildlocalnews.org/explainer-ca...
Explainer: California’s Community NEWS Act (AB 2222)
An overview of California’s proposed local journalist employment credit for newsrooms, explaining how the program works, who qualifies, and the safeguards designed to prevent misuse.
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I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...
A Black teen found hanged near Charlotte church was a suicide, police say. Questions remain
In May, 16-year-old Juliana Nzita was found dead in a Charlotte churchyard. CMPD called it a suicide. Her family isn’t so sure.
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Making the Grade at The Assembly’s Triangle Article Club Participants debated possible causes of grade inflation and potential solutions at the Chapel Hill gathering.
Making the Grade at The Assembly's Triangle Article Club
Participants debated possible causes of grade inflation and potential solutions at the Chapel Hill gathering.
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A school I wrote about not long ago—A&T Four Middle College—posted huge gains in recent test scores. The school's composite proficiency score was up 26 points from the year before. The student body is all boys, mostly Black and Hispanic. greensborothread.com/news/educati...
Guilford, Forsyth Students Make Progress Despite Challenges
Test scores are up in both counties, with particular progress at N.C. A&T University’s A&T Four Middle College.
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State test scores climb for WCPSS, with third grade reading a stand out www.wunc.org/education/20...
State test scores climb for WCPSS, with third grade reading a stand out
This week, the state released the results of end-of-year exams public school students took last spring, and it was a very good year for Wake County Public Schools.
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In the Leandro case, she wrote: “It is difficult to estimate the damage this Court has done to its own legitimacy by trying to rewrite a fundamental constitutional guarantee because it no longer comports with the Justices’ individual political preferences." www.theassemblync.com/news/politic...
The Politics of Dissent
As Anita Earls runs for re-election to the state Supreme Court, here's what her dissents tell us about her judicial philosophy.
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I've spent the last few months talking to people who are trying to improve childhood around the world for my upcoming book. Now, I want to talk to more families and children! Are you open to sharing? I'd love to hear from you! Check out the info below and feel free to reach out with any questions!
NEW FROM ME: On a hellish third-country removal flight last month, passengers say ICE-contracted guards got drunk, teased and beat them, tied them up, refused to let them use the lavatory. One says he witnessed an ICE agent admit to illegal chain refoulement. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...
‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far - The American Prospect
On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.
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🧵: I've been looking at grade retention in NC in collaboration with @biglocalnews.bsky.social & @hechingerreport.org. The most recent available federal data, from 2021-22, show NC ninth graders retained at one of the highest rates in the country. www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...
Make Or Break
Ninth graders in N.C. are held back more often than students in other parts of the country. How can schools ensure they're ready to move on?
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The Durham Record Label Where Dolly Parton Found a ‘Little Spot of Heaven’ From Dolly to Doc Watson, Sugar Hill Records played a big role shaping American roots music. While many have forgotten its origin, the legacy its founder built lives on.
The Durham Record Label Where Dolly Parton Found a ‘Little Spot of Heaven’
From Dolly to Doc Watson, Sugar Hill Records played a big role shaping American roots music. The legacy its founder built lives on.
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"A Harvard University committee rang the alarm about A’s being given out too easily way back in 1894. But the problem has been called a myth for nearly as long." www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...
A Is for Average
The median college GPA has been rising at many schools across the state. It's not clear what's causing grade inflation—or if it matters.
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“Judge Morris’ decision is the most inexplicable and unexpected decision that I have encountered in almost 50 years of litigating public records cases,” Hugh Stevens said in a written statement. www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...
UNC-Chapel Hill Civics School Investigation Can Stay Secret, Judge Says
The Assembly and other outlets sued to release the report under public records laws. The court ruled in the university’s favor.
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Make Or Break North Carolina has one of the highest ninth-grade retention rates in the country. Schools and parents are struggling with how best to ensure students are ready to move on to the next grade.
Make Or Break
Ninth graders in N.C. are held back more often than students in other parts of the country. How can schools ensure they're ready to move on?
theassemblync.com
A National Divide Over Holding Students Back The rate at which students are held back a grade has fallen. But there's a growing divide on when the intervention is most effective.
A National Divide Over Holding Students Back
The rate at which students are held back a grade has fallen. But there's a growing divide on when the intervention is most effective.
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"For nearly three decades, North Carolina required law enforcement officers and agencies to record information about traffic stops, searches, arrests and uses of force, creating a database that allowed the public to examine racial disparities..." That ended. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
NC quietly ends decades of tracking racial disparities in policing
The repeal, found in the newly passed budget, eliminates a key tool used to uncover patterns involving police agencies and individual officers, some experts said.
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The Newest High School in Holly Springs is in a Surprising Location–An Office Park westernwakenc.com/news/educati...
The Newest High School in Holly Springs is in a Surprising Location–An Office Park
Pine Springs Preparatory Academy, an independent charter school, will have its inaugural ninth grade class starting this fall, nestled among Holly Springs’ growing biotech companies.
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State Rep. Erin Paré is proposing legislation to regulate what transgender school employees wear in school after she says the Wake County school system hired a transgender music teacher, the N&O reports. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
NC GOP lawmaker says she’ll propose law to restrict attire for trans teachers
Wake has hired a trans music teacher. Rep. Erin Paré objects to the teacher’s attire.
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In NC, the state provides public school districts with $5,309 per student receiving special education services, up to 13% of the student population. But 102 of the 115 districts in NC have more EC students and have to cover the difference, BBI reports. borderbelt.org/nc-funding-s...
Funding Model for Students With Disabilities Leaves Some N.C. Schools Scrambling
Public school leaders and advocates say the state should revamp the way it pays for exceptional children’s programs.
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The Assembly Network Wins 8 Green Eyeshade Awards The Assembly Network's teams in the Triangle, Greensboro, and statewide won a total of eight awards for stories published last year.
The Assembly Network Wins 8 Green Eyeshade Awards
The Assembly Network's teams in the Triangle, Greensboro, and statewide won a total of eight awards for stories published last year.
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BREAKING NYT: The Trump admin sought the phone records of several Times journalists and their relatives — including one reporter's mother — in its effort to unmask the confidential sources who had provided information for articles about the security capabilities of Trump's new Air Force One jet.
Trump Administration Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their Relatives
The government is aggressively seeking the confidential sources of Times reporters who wrote about the president’s new Air Force One. The Times has asked a judge to quash the subpoenas.
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