A partner in the consulting firm that worked on a “project-to-project basis” with Wayne County Public Schools from 2016 to 2019 — a man credited, by former WCPS superintendent Dr. Michael Dunsmore, with helping “to train our finance officer” and…

Over the first nine months of 2019-20, Wayne County Public Schools paid its out-of-town law firm about $125,000 more than the Wayne County government spent during the same timeframe on the salaries and benefits for its three-person legal team —…

A New Old North records request has revealed that a consulting firm that employs — or has employed — former high-level local and state school officials with connections to Wayne County Public Schools has been working with WCPS since 2016….

One Goldsboro City Council member didn’t vote to approve the budget because it did not include funding for a forensic audit of the city’s books. Another took exception to what he characterized as a tax hike disguised as a 17.5%…

Social distancing markers on floors. No self-service for food or drinks in the cafeteria. Symptom screening — including temperature checks — for everyone who wants to enter a school building. Increased cleaning and disinfection of everything from facilities to school…

In the first nine months of the 2019-20 fiscal year, Wayne County Public Schools spent more than $400,000 on legal services. The billing statements for July 2019 through March 2020 were released as a result of a Freedom of Information…

The Wayne County Board of Commissioners offered the county’s Board of Education a loan to help cover the district’s teacher stipends and June payroll shortfall. But in return, the county wanted an accounting of how the money would be spent,…

Wayne County Public Schools teachers will get their supplements and June paychecks with help from state funds, not by asking the county commissioners to pick up the bill, the district’s acting, and soon-to-be-interim, Superintendent Dr. James Merrill said. But he…