As the new school year begins, NC New Schools continues to broaden its reach across the state to help districts and schools transform teaching and learning so that students graduate well prepared for the challenges of a changed world. In all this year, NC New Schools is working in partnership with districts in nearly 80 of the state’s 100 counties with services ranging from leadership development to instructional coaching to customized, on-site support for professional learning. Total enrollment in 152 schools now served by NC New Schools now exceeds 35,000 students.

NC New Schools provides services at the district level in a growing number of counties, from three in 2013-2014 to 13 this year, including Buncombe, Madison, Warren, Rutherford, Winston-Salem/Forsyth, Yadkin, Surry, Beaufort, Hertford, Bladen, Wake, Durham, and Guilford.

Among 17 schools with which NC New Schools is working for the first time are a new early college on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, a new STEM-focused school in Buncombe County, Martin L. Nesbitt Jr. Discovery Academy, and three career academies at high schools in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg district under a new partnership between NC New Schools and the National Academy Foundation.

For the first time, NC New Schools is also working in elementary schools, providing leadership coaching to principals.