The opening of a facility in Greensboro proposed to house 800 unaccompanied migrant children from the southern border appears imminent, possibly as soon as August.
Published: Wednesday, September 13th, 2023 @ 9:58 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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RALEIGH: Over the past few weeks, Governor Roy Cooper has continued to sound the alarm on dangerous Republican plans that would gut funding for public education and expand private school vouchers so anyone – even a millionaire – can get taxpayer money for their children’s private school tuition.
Published: Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 @ 9:24 am
By: Governor's Office
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No armed school officer
Published: Friday, May 27th, 2022 @ 10:16 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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A new poll by Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina provides more good news for school choice supporters in the Tar Heel state. The survey polled 500 likely voters on a variety of school choice issues.
Published: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 @ 2:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Many North Carolinians breathed a sigh of relief last week when the GOP-led legislature and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper came to terms on a budget for the new biennium.
Published: Monday, December 6th, 2021 @ 3:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and the Senate’s top officer are calling out Charlotte-Mecklenburg school leaders
Published: Sunday, July 4th, 2021 @ 6:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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2020 has been a tough year for North Carolina public schools.
Published: Monday, December 7th, 2020 @ 12:59 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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This year, North Carolina got a new means of evaluating K12 schools.
Published: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020 @ 3:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I am now discovering that there is a new local political movement afoot to cast aspersions against me as a Beaufort County commissioner and as a service provider of extreme quality, even saying that my company is the "Webmaster" for the county site, which is false.
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2020 @ 11:22 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Statement from Lt. Governor Forest on the Cooper Administration proposing to defund the Opportunity Scholarship program for low-income families:
Published: Monday, August 31st, 2020 @ 5:06 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Parents shouldn’t be afraid to homeschool their children, says Sam Sorbo, actress, author, and homeschooling activist.
Published: Sunday, April 19th, 2020 @ 4:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Responding to the coronavirus outbreak, at 5 p.m. Friday, March 27, more than a million more North Carolinians face a stay at home order, issued Thursday afternoon by the Wake County Board of Commissioners.
Published: Tuesday, March 31st, 2020 @ 6:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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One day after declaring a state of emergency, Gov. Roy Cooper signed an executive order prohibiting mass gatherings greater than 100 people and closing the public schools until March 30 to limit the spread of coronavirus.
Published: Friday, March 20th, 2020 @ 2:46 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Definition of 'gatherings' isn't clear when churches are included but malls aren't
Published: Thursday, March 19th, 2020 @ 11:21 am
By: Carolina Journal
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K-12 public schools are closing for two weeks and universities are moving classes online to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2020 @ 5:22 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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School is canceled in North Carolina. Now, the state must decide how to handle nutrition, child care, and distance learning.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2020 @ 8:28 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper today ordered all K-12 public schools in North Carolina to close for a minimum of two weeks in response to COVID-19.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2020 @ 11:46 am
By: Governor's Office
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Today, Governor Cooper issued an executive order that bans mass gatherings of more than 100 people and closes K-12 public schools across the state for two weeks beginning March 16.
Published: Saturday, March 14th, 2020 @ 8:25 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As stories of the spread of coronavirus continue to circulate in the media, teachers have turned to Facebook to complain about a purported shortage of cleaning supplies and hand sanitizer needed to combat the spread of COVID-19 in their schools and classrooms.
Published: Saturday, March 14th, 2020 @ 8:24 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Earlier this month, I was honored to attend “North Carolina and the Science of Reading,” an event sponsored by the Charlotte-based Belk Foundation.
Published: Friday, February 28th, 2020 @ 11:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Nearly every election cycle, a handful of counties place a sales tax referendum on the ballot.
Published: Thursday, February 27th, 2020 @ 5:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina Democrats and Republicans have sparred for years about the level of state funding for public schools.
Published: Friday, August 9th, 2019 @ 5:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The education establishment and their left-wing political allies frequently condemn companies that are contracted to operate public charter schools
Published: Wednesday, June 5th, 2019 @ 7:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In North Carolina, at-risk 4-year-olds unable to attend a brick-and-mortar pre-K may soon get a chance to attend virtual preschool.
Published: Thursday, May 30th, 2019 @ 1:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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During Monday's special called meeting of the Beaufort County Board of Education, Betty Jane Green was approved as the new principal of John Small Elementary.
Published: Thursday, February 28th, 2019 @ 3:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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BCS Board of Education Calendar for January 2019
Published: Friday, January 4th, 2019 @ 5:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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