Amy Diaz
Amy Diaz began covering education in North Carolina’s Piedmont region and High Country for WFDD in partnership with Report For America in 2022. Before entering the world of public radio, she worked as a local government reporter in Flint, Mich. where she was named the 2021 Rookie Writer of the Year by the Michigan Press Association.
Diaz is originally from Florida, where she interned at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and freelanced for the Tampa Bay Times. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of South Florida, but truly got her start in the field in elementary school writing scripts for the morning news. You can follow her on Twitter at @amydiaze.
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Billy Parker was sworn in Monday as the interim Rockingham County Sheriff following the retirement of Sam Page, who’s running for state senator. -
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools is debt-free and rebuilding savings after a major financial crisis. But officials say this marks a milestone — not an end to their work. -
Forsyth County Commissioners voted 5-2 to deny a rezoning application to build a hyperscale data center in Rural Hall. -
Cone Health's "Building a Better You" event will offer wellness screenings and school supplies to Guilford County residents this Saturday. -
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools launched a new GED preparation program last school year taught in Spanish. It was free to parents in the district, as was the on-site childcare. -
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools officials announced Tuesday that the district is now debt-free. The district has been chipping away at a $46 million deficit for over a year. -
Developers are looking to rezone roughly 129 acres of land right across from the town hall to build a hyperscale data center campus. It’s called “Project Iron Spur.” -
A group that North Carolina lawmakers created to boost education in the state has begun drafting recommendations for policy change. Members are focused on early literacy, the teacher pipeline and the school performance grades model. -
After a months-long national search, the North Carolina Board of Community Colleges chose Monty Sullivan to oversee the system’s 58 colleges serving 600,000 students. -
Legislators have allocated $3.2 million to the Alamance-Burlington School System for an AI School Safety Pilot Program. It will likely be a couple of months before the district decides whether or not to move forward with it.
