"A third of kids in North Carolina are missing more than 10 days of school per year. This is, as compared to other states in the South, not a good number,” said NC DPI Superintendent Catherine Truitt
Published: Sunday, December 10th, 2023 @ 1:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State test scores show slight improvement over last year’s scores but still trail prepandemic levels
Published: Friday, October 13th, 2023 @ 5:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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RALEIGH: Governor Roy Cooper announced North Carolina boards and commissions appointments today.
Published: Thursday, December 22nd, 2022 @ 12:04 pm
By: Governor's Office
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper celebrated Apprenticeship Week by touring the Caterpillar Pre-Apprenticeship Training in Welding Program at Central Carolina Community College.
Published: Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 @ 1:20 pm
By: Governor's Office
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While newly released data show four-year graduation rates for North Carolina public schools are comparable to pre-pandemic rates, there are deeper concerns about what knowledge and skills students have when they graduate and also about the persistence of racial achievement gaps
Published: Friday, September 23rd, 2022 @ 8:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Test scores improved for 3rd through 8th grade across categories during the 2021-2022 school year.
Published: Tuesday, September 6th, 2022 @ 2:48 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Beaufort County Community College's College and Career Readiness (CCR) program has helped 56 students earn one or more Digital Literacy Badges/Certificates through the NorthStar Digital Literacy curriculum.
Published: Tuesday, March 15th, 2022 @ 10:24 am
By: Attila Nemecz
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Test results in reading, math, and science for the 2020-21 school year show the effects school closures and remote learning have had on public school students in North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, October 5th, 2021 @ 12:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Judge David Lee, the overseer of the Leandro case, approved a plan Tuesday, Sept. 1, calling for millions more in education spending to meet North Carolina’s constitutional obligation to provide a sound, basic education to every child.
Published: Thursday, September 3rd, 2020 @ 3:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced an $825,000 grant to help high school students prepare for college and careers through Communities In Schools of North Carolina’s (CISNC) Jobs for North Carolina’s Graduates (JNCG) program.
Published: Tuesday, January 28th, 2020 @ 10:43 am
By: Governor's Office
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While the media will be focusing on union activists at today’s teacher march, I’ll be thinking about a young man named Junior.
Published: Monday, May 20th, 2019 @ 11:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) co-sponsored bipartisan legislation that would improve the GEAR UP federal grant program by giving grant recipients increased flexibility to cater to local students' needs, reducing administrative burdens for grant recipients, and ensuring a more fair.
Published: Sunday, February 10th, 2019 @ 9:31 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Hardly a week goes by without hearing news that North Carolina or some North Carolina city or town is achieving a high ranking on a business or quality of life survey
Published: Saturday, November 24th, 2018 @ 12:27 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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As he campaigned for the Republican presidential nomination in the winter of 1999, then-Gov. George W. Bush delivered his memorable "soft bigotry of low expectations" speech before the Latino Business Association in Los Angeles.
Published: Thursday, September 27th, 2018 @ 1:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The 2017-18 school performance grades are in, and it’s mixed bag of good news and bad. Meanwhile, education leaders continue to promise improvements in academic performance
Published: Monday, September 17th, 2018 @ 3:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The legislature's School Safety Subcommittee on Student Health heard from myriad mental health experts about the need for more school psychologists and other related services in North Carolina public schools
Published: Tuesday, April 10th, 2018 @ 1:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Pay me now or pay me later, but pay me you will," said the guy selling Fram Oil Filters in the 1970s TV commercials. I remembered those ads as I listened to the presenters at this year's Emerging Issues Forum
Published: Saturday, March 10th, 2018 @ 3:26 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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With the adoption of Common Core State Standards in 2010, college and career readiness became the stated outcome of our public schools
Published: Sunday, January 7th, 2018 @ 9:35 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina does generally well according to national education standards, peers say, but it needs to take better advantage of opportunities to improve
Published: Friday, December 22nd, 2017 @ 1:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Roy Cooper visited Walter M. Williams High School in Alamance County today to announce a $2 million grant to support college and career readiness programs in middle and high schools through Communities In Schools of North Carolina
Published: Thursday, November 9th, 2017 @ 6:37 pm
By: Governor's Office
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In Part I of our two-part response to Keith Poston’s column, I showed how budget data does not support the claim that state government is disinvesting in the public schools and how some of the budget issues Poston references derive from local – not state – decisions or priorities
Published: Monday, October 2nd, 2017 @ 3:47 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Homeschooling is the maverick among North Carolina's K-12 options. Since its launch three decades ago, homeschooling has bucked convention and stumped prognosticators
Published: Thursday, December 29th, 2016 @ 10:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Parents, test prep experts, and college counselors give careful thought in working with students as they approach the crucial "college entrance exam."
Published: Tuesday, October 25th, 2016 @ 4:10 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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It's back-to-school time and parents everywhere want not only to encourage their children academically, but also want to know how their child's school is performing.
Published: Thursday, October 13th, 2016 @ 11:45 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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A combination of factors has resulted in a dip in full-time enrollment at Beaufort County Community College for Fall 2015, but the news isn't all bad
Published: Monday, September 14th, 2015 @ 2:15 am
By: Barbara Tansey
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