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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The ceremony came more than a year after she assumed the role as WSSU's 14th chancellor. -
The University of North Carolina System as a whole reported record enrollment this fall, with some of the largest percentage increases in the system’s Historically Black Universities. -
Nonprofits, faith-based groups, business leaders and advocates have launched a website to coordinate donations for the district. -
Forsyth Tech students who earn an associate degree, maintain a 3.0 GPA or higher and meet transfer deadlines will be guaranteed admission for more than 100 N.C. State majors and concentrations. -
Friday was the last day of work for hundreds of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools employees who lost their jobs amid the district’s financial crisis. -
The training focuses on the most common issues for 12 to 18 year olds, like anxiety, depression, eating disorders and ADHD, as well as the impacts of social media and cyberbullying. -
The board also voted to give Superintendent Whitney Oakley a 5% annual salary increase, a retention bonus of 10% of her pay this school year, and a $30,000 contribution to a retirement account of her choice. -
The district’s auditor, Forvis Mazars, says they won’t be able to finalize their report until the additional review required by the state is complete. -
The Forsyth County Association of Educators held a town hall Monday night urging legislators to pass a mini-budget to support the schools. Only two members of the local delegation attended. -
WFDD listener Laura Allred used to live in Greensboro and work in Asheboro. On her daily commute up and down 220, she saw big, red and black Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation, or PART, buses taking her same route, and wanted to learn more.
