Lisa Philip
Before joining WUNC in October as the station's new education reporter, Lisa Philip covered schools in Howard County, Maryland for the Baltimore Sun newspapers. She traveled from school playgrounds to the state legislature, writing about everything from a Girl Scout friendship bench project to a state investigation into local school officials' alleged hiding of public records.
Lisa initially became interested in education reporting while working for an after school music education program in five Baltimore City schools. In her former life, she trained and worked as a professional violist and arts administrator. She has been telling stories since age 5, when she wrote and (poorly) illustrated her first book, "Mary and the Key Lime Pie."
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The Confederate statue known as "Silent Sam" had stood on the main campus quad in Chapel Hill from 1913 until it was torn down by protesters in August 2018.
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Some UNC Chapel Hill graduate students are asking their classmates to boycott upcoming meetings with a university dean.
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A showdown is mounting between UNC- Chapel Hill officials and some university faculty and graduate students over the fate of Silent Sam.
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Many students at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill are dissatisfied with a university proposal to display a confederate statue in a new history building. The statue was toppled in August.
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Four-thousand more children in North Carolina went uninsured in 2017 than in the previous year. That's as the number of children around the country...
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Updated 1:10 p.m. Officials with the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees have approved a plan to recommend a new on-campus history center to house Silent...
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Dr. Bill Roper, CEO of the UNC Health Care, will replace outgoing UNC System President Margaret Spellings on an interim basis starting in the new year....
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Many of Krista Holland's students have been away from home and out of school for more than week. She says, "The lack of a sense of normalcy for the kids, I think that's where my heart aches the most."
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More North Carolina teachers have responded to a working conditions survey than ever before. The results reveal 40 percent of participants don't believe...
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The panel that oversees North Carolina's public universities is changing leadership. The University of North Carolina Board of Governors on Thursday...