SECU Foundation is pleased to announce the pilot of a new Disaster Response Program to address capacity building for North Carolina non-profits located in disaster areas as declared by federal or state governments.
Published: Friday, November 24th, 2023 @ 2:33 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Recently, Golden LEAF President, Chief Executive Officer Scott T. Hamilton sat down with Dr. Jeff Cox, the President of the North Carolina Community College System, via Zoom and filmed an episode of Critical Conversations.
Published: Saturday, September 23rd, 2023 @ 8:30 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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At a forum hosted by the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance on Jan. 9, House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger discussed a host of issues leading up to the 2023 legislative session, which began on Jan. 11.
Published: Tuesday, January 31st, 2023 @ 8:04 am
By: Carolina Journal
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With the Biden administration’s announcement this week that it would continue the moratorium on student loan payments through the beginning of next year and will forgive up to $20,000 in student loan debt per student, student loan forgiveness is at the top of the current political agenda.
Published: Tuesday, August 30th, 2022 @ 12:00 pm
By: Daily Wire
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If you’ve read a news story about climate change or renewable energy lately in a North Carolina newspaper, there’s a good chance the author’s salary was not paid by that newspaper but rather by funding from an environmentalist organization or other outside money.
Published: Monday, April 4th, 2022 @ 8:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Loudoun County School Board (LCPS), which has been harshly criticized by parents for its policies, is now asking the state to make sure the county’s school funding is not cut despite dropping enrollment “due to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Published: Friday, December 17th, 2021 @ 4:11 am
By: Daily Wire
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It might be a new year, but remote learning isn’t over.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2021 @ 11:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If you long for January, when things were “normal,” you are not alone.
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2020 @ 3:49 am
By: Tom Campbell
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In October 2019, Beaufort businessman Randy Ramsey was unanimously elected chairman of the University of North Carolina System’s Board of Governors.
Published: Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 @ 11:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On January 21, Eric Davis, chairman of the North Carolina State Board of Education distributed a memo to selected organizations titled “Invitation to Submit Recommended Priorities in Response to WestEd Report (WER) in Leandro.”
Published: Tuesday, February 25th, 2020 @ 1:28 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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As many predicted, the California-based consulting firm WestEd is recommending that North Carolina spend billions of taxpayer dollars on preschools and district schools to meet the requirements of the Leandro case.
Published: Sunday, December 22nd, 2019 @ 9:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As many predicted, the California-based consulting firm WestEd is recommending North Carolina spend billions of taxpayer dollars on pre-schools and district schools to meet the requirements of the Leandro case.
Published: Tuesday, December 17th, 2019 @ 7:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A long-anticipated report from an education consulting group suggests North Carolina should boost public school spending by at least $8 billion over the next eight years to satisfy its constitutional obligations.
Published: Thursday, December 12th, 2019 @ 8:33 am
By: Carolina Journal
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Saturday, August 24th, 2019 @ 12:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After lawmakers pass a budget establishing public education funding levels for the following school year, the N.C. Department of Public Instruction distributes state dollars to school districts using a so-called resource allocation model.
Published: Saturday, February 16th, 2019 @ 10:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Discussions around the revised 2018-19 budget have often focused on K-12 education spending
Published: Saturday, June 2nd, 2018 @ 7:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Flexibility was the word of the day in a meeting of the Joint Legislative Task Force on Education Finance Reform
Published: Saturday, February 3rd, 2018 @ 9:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Soccer promoters in North Carolina's two biggest cities have pursued public and private financing in their bids to build stadiums and attract major league clubs, but questions in Raleigh over a proposed stadium built on public land and hits to Charlotte's public funding
Published: Monday, August 14th, 2017 @ 9:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Charter School Reform: Authorizers and Capital Funding
Published: Friday, January 20th, 2017 @ 9:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Measuring the performance of colleges - and holding them accountable for their performance - is an unsolved problem. A new "earnings gains" measure of community colleges in North Carolina aims to solve it.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 11:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Measuring the performance of colleges-and holding them accountable for their performances-is an unsolved problem
Published: Friday, September 4th, 2015 @ 12:43 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The East Carolina University Board of Trustees swore in new members, heard an update on Heritage Hall and broke ground for a new student center during its July 17 meeting.
Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 4:28 am
By: ECU News Services
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Chancellor Steve Ballard released a statement Sunday to assure supporters of the Brody School of Medicine that “there are no plans to close the Brody School now or in the future.”
Published: Sunday, February 15th, 2015 @ 3:45 am
By: The East Carolinian
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On the corner of South Elm Street and Lee Street on the south side of downtown Greensboro lies a seven-acre empty lot.
Published: Tuesday, June 24th, 2014 @ 12:59 am
By: John William Pope Center
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However, differences in technology and operating procedures across the state and nation continue to create a host of problems, from a delay in 911 services to no help arriving at all in crisis situations. Ongoing research by faculty members James Holloway, Elaine Seeman and Jim Kleckley in the East
Published: Thursday, November 14th, 2013 @ 12:23 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Governor Pat McCrory unveiled his proposal for the state's biennial budget on March 20. The University of North Carolina system received a small cut compared to the previous biennium, and the budget also specifies changes that should cut waste and expand key initiatives.
Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 @ 6:29 pm
By: Duke Cheston
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