North Carolina Education Corps recruiting 200 members to serve in public schools across the state
Published: Thursday, November 26th, 2020 @ 12:24 am
By: Governor's Office
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The North Carolina Division of Public Health is accepting entries for the NC Be Antibiotic Aware Artwork Competition.
Published: Tuesday, October 20th, 2020 @ 10:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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EdChoice released its rankings of states based on Educational Choice Share, the proportion of all K–12 students who are enrolled in an education savings account, school voucher, or tax-credit scholarship program.
Published: Monday, September 14th, 2020 @ 11:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the past decade school choice has expanded across North Carolina.
Published: Monday, August 31st, 2020 @ 3:19 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper directed $95.6 million in new funding to help support K-12 and postsecondary students most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic who can benefit from support during the upcoming school year.
Published: Thursday, August 13th, 2020 @ 9:54 am
By: Governor's Office
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Gov. Roy Cooper’s school reopening plan creates confusion when parents and kids need a clear path forward, one education expert says.
Published: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020 @ 6:33 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Districts may choose to conduct school entirely by remote learning
Published: Wednesday, July 15th, 2020 @ 3:08 pm
By: Governor's Office
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President Donald J. Trump and his Administration are working to support the safe reopening of schools for the fall.
Published: Thursday, July 9th, 2020 @ 2:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Decisions about what school will look like in the fall are coming up fast.
Published: Sunday, June 21st, 2020 @ 3:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Public schools are supposed to begin the new year about 75 days from now, so I asked two teachers what to expect.
Published: Friday, May 29th, 2020 @ 7:47 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Leandro v. State of North Carolina casts a long shadow over the public schools in the Tar Heel state.
Published: Saturday, May 23rd, 2020 @ 11:12 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Picnics, county fairs, and local festivals are out. Zoom meetings and email blasts are in.
Published: Friday, May 1st, 2020 @ 8:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Dozens of people, including a handful of families, gathering across the street from the Legislative Building, openly violating Gov. Roy Cooper’s Executive Order 121 banning gatherings of more than 10 people.
Published: Wednesday, April 15th, 2020 @ 9:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As North Carolina fights the coronavirus, the General Assembly should take a few simple, smart steps to keep public education on track and the economy afloat, experts say.
Published: Tuesday, March 31st, 2020 @ 11:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gifts totaling $350,000 will provide scholarships, programming, resources
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2020 @ 5:13 pm
By: ECU News Services
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I grew up in the “separate but equal” school era, although we knew Black schools weren’t equal. The 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education, ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
Published: Thursday, July 25th, 2019 @ 7:53 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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In a news release issued Friday, Gov. Roy Cooper’s spokesman made it clear: Medicaid expansion must be part of any General Fund budget he signs.
Published: Saturday, June 22nd, 2019 @ 1:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Hurricane Florence severely damaged schools across North Carolina and left hundreds of thousands of children without homes or classrooms
Published: Saturday, October 6th, 2018 @ 9:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) is holding a rally in Raleigh where the organization is having teachers meet to lobby legislators for higher salaries and more education funding
Published: Sunday, May 20th, 2018 @ 10:52 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Educators are more concerned about how much time students spend on social media at home as compared to the time they spend online in the classroom
Published: Thursday, April 19th, 2018 @ 12:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As state taxpayers, we own a lot of stuff - office, school and university buildings, state agencies and department offices, courthouses, prisons, libraries, books ... and lots of land
Published: Thursday, March 1st, 2018 @ 2:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The continuing battle over separation of powers between Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the Republican-led General Assembly played out simultaneously in two venues Friday morning
Published: Tuesday, February 13th, 2018 @ 1:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Earlier this year Governor Cooper toured Linamar Corporation, a precision machining and assembly company located outside Asheville, North Carolina
Published: Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018 @ 3:44 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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In 1886, Sir Edward Clarke delivered a speech in the U.K. House of Commons and in polite way of insulting someone, he said: "The mind was indeed so open that it had nothing in it at all."
Published: Thursday, December 14th, 2017 @ 10:14 am
By: Diane Rufino
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To help promote a strong workforce to make sure North Carolina is prepared for the jobs of today and tomorrow, Governor Roy Cooper has declared December 4-10, 2017, Computer Science Education Week
Published: Tuesday, December 5th, 2017 @ 2:09 pm
By: Governor's Office
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If students in charter schools perform no better on standardized tests, all other things being held equal, than their peers in district-run public schools, should North Carolina limit or stop the growth of charter schools
Published: Monday, November 27th, 2017 @ 7:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Move over, piano teachers. Take the bench, soccer coaches. Computer coding is on the rise as an after-school activity for Raleigh's K-12 students
Published: Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017 @ 12:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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