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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Cooper visited a bus facility in Durham to highlight the recent significant federal funding for electric school buses in North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024 @ 11:33 am
By: Governor's Office
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Federal EPA funds from the Biden Administration will put new electric school buses on the road in NC
Published: Saturday, March 16th, 2024 @ 11:18 pm
By: Governor's Office
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced appointments to boards and commissions.
Published: Friday, November 10th, 2023 @ 4:44 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The old aphorism was never truer, “laws are like sausages. It’s best not to see them being made.” The big news this week has been the state budget and why, almost three months late, it hasn’t passed.
Published: Monday, October 9th, 2023 @ 1:39 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Tools4Schools provides state-of-the-art, brand new school supplies to Wake County Public School teachers free of charge
Published: Sunday, October 1st, 2023 @ 7:51 am
By: Governor's Office
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On Tuesday, Senate lawmakers approved a bill prohibiting biological males from competing in sports designated for biological females at North Carolina schools and universities. It will now seek the House’s concurrence before advancing to Gov. Roy Cooper’s desk.
Published: Wednesday, August 16th, 2023 @ 12:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Two Polls Ask Parents and School Board Members Their Opinions on the Direction of Schools, Their Governance, How They Address Controversial Issues, and More
Published: Tuesday, July 18th, 2023 @ 11:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Cooper outlines devastating impacts of Republican legislature’s schemes to give vouchers to millionaires, defund public schools and push culture wars in the classroom and urges North Carolinians to contact their legislators to protect public schools
Published: Monday, June 12th, 2023 @ 8:57 am
By: Governor's Office
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The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) recently received approximately $17 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Education to help meet the mental health needs of students in the state’s public schools.
Published: Thursday, January 26th, 2023 @ 5:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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New K-12 Science Standards for North Carolina schools were released last month, and the results are a mixed bag
Published: Thursday, January 5th, 2023 @ 8:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Progressives across the country are working tirelessly to rewrite the history on school reopenings, claiming that it was a bipartisan effort. The reality is far different, and, in fact, progressive leaders fought to keep schools closed.
Published: Monday, November 7th, 2022 @ 1:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Activists continue to work for policies that affirm gender identity in North Carolina schools
Published: Tuesday, August 30th, 2022 @ 2:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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LGBTQ+ activists claim schools should affirm gender identity, create welcoming school cultures, and facilitate the transition process
Published: Monday, August 29th, 2022 @ 9:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Cheri Beasley does not care about our children.
Published: Friday, August 26th, 2022 @ 11:28 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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What FASTER Colorado could do to make North Carolina schools safer
Published: Wednesday, August 10th, 2022 @ 8:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina schools received over $6 billion in funding to remedy the impacts of the covid-19 pandemic on students and schools.
Published: Wednesday, July 27th, 2022 @ 2:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The rarely noticed North Carolina Textbook Commission is having a moment. Last week, Club for Growth Action aired a campaign advertisement supporting Rep. Ted Budd that referenced a long-forgotten blog post I wrote in 2014.
Published: Thursday, May 5th, 2022 @ 4:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since 2020, North Carolina has received -almost $6.1 billion in federal covid relief funds.
Published: Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 @ 7:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Learning loss in huge problem in the United States. A July 2021 analysis by McKinsey & Company consulting found that by the end of the school year, students were on average five months behind in mathematics and four months behind in reading.
Published: Friday, March 11th, 2022 @ 5:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s state constitution, in Article IX, section 1 (“Education Encouraged”), reads: “Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools, libraries, and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”
Published: Thursday, February 10th, 2022 @ 10:24 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Chad Adelman and Katherine Silberstein of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University seem to think so. That’s the topic they tackle in a new Edunomics brief.
Published: Wednesday, January 26th, 2022 @ 1:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In an inestimable year of damage done to our Constitutional Republic by the politicization of Covid, and to the People and small businesses of North Carolina, who are damaged by the tyranny of bad governing by an Authoritarian executive branch, accountability must now reign.
Published: Saturday, January 15th, 2022 @ 12:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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