- Became superintendent in June 2025.
- Prior to being superintendent, Trice was the deputy superintendent for teaching and learning, systemic equity and engagement. He led the district’s equity office.
- When he was director of equity in Wake County he led teacher trainings to help teachers push social and racial justice themes in their classrooms. He said teachers are supposed to see “inequities wherever they are” and to make sure inequities are “disrupted wherever we see them.” His trainings were modeled directly from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance curriculum.
- Trice has written multiple articles for the Southern Poverty Law Center. He wrote, “Equity work is not a one-off professional development training or an office that works in isolation. This work requires embedded and systemic shifts. Diversity, equity and inclusion must be infused within the very fabric of your organization, school or district. The transportation department needs to be operating with an equity lens just as much as an academic department, and so on. While traditional leadership is top-down, equity leadership looks more like a lattice—everyone from families to support staff to educators all the way to the school board must be in.”
- Trice said, “Because of the history of our country, we all experience issues around race and racism,” Trice said. “It’s a part of our experiences living in this country and there are consequences from having that experience.”
- Trice used a very controversial program called “Courageous Conversations about Race” in teacher training.
- Trice’s department created a Black Lives Matter themed website to provide resources to teachers so they could “teach the movement.” The website promoted the BLM co-founder Patrice Cullors who admits to being a “trained Marxist.”