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Report concludes series examining major issues impacting North Carolina women
Published: Friday, March 25th, 2022 @ 6:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, more Americans are working than ever before. Virtually every demographic is achieving historic low unemployment rates.
Published: Friday, December 13th, 2019 @ 11:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The fast-moving trains advocating for state-funded pre-K programs in North Carolina and elsewhere lost some steam this week with the release of two reports
Published: Tuesday, July 24th, 2018 @ 5:30 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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In his budget proposal, Common Ground Solutions for North Carolina, Governor Cooper proposed adding $15 million to the Smart Start program, a public private partnership focused on early childhood health and education
Published: Thursday, May 4th, 2017 @ 11:44 pm
By: Governor's Office
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A new audit report calls into question nearly $4.9 million in spending by Four-County Community Services, a nonprofit organization that runs Head Start programs and provides other assistance to low-income families in seven southeastern North Carolina counties.
Published: Saturday, February 8th, 2014 @ 2:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory has signed an executive order to re-establish the North Carolina Early Childhood Advisory Council (NCECAC), creating a comprehensive early childhood website in tandem with the order.
Published: Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 @ 11:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The N.C. Supreme Court has thrown out a lawsuit challenging changes the General Assembly made to the state's pre-kindergarten program in 2011, ruling that subsequent changes made that lawsuit "moot."
Published: Monday, November 11th, 2013 @ 3:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's highest court is about to weigh in - again - on state government's constitutional role in making sure children considered at risk of failure in school begin kindergarten with the proper tools to succeed.
Published: Saturday, October 5th, 2013 @ 8:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory called on North Carolina's education leaders to increase their production of community college and university graduates as well as devise more innovative methods to increase teacher pay.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2013 @ 4:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Gov. Pat McCrory unveiled his first budget Wednesday that would spend $20.6 billion in the next fiscal year, an increase of about 2.2 percent over the current fiscal year's General Fund budget. The total state budget, including...
Published: Sunday, March 24th, 2013 @ 12:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Child Care Commission made another attempt Feb. 4 to get a procedural committee that sifts through administrative rules to approve a controversial rule prohibiting religious instruction at NC Pre-K centers.
Published: Monday, February 11th, 2013 @ 1:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the most controversial issues in the past few years has been the growing role of the state in providing preschool opportunities to North Carolina children.
Published: Monday, October 22nd, 2012 @ 4:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new political climate in the state capital could result in a number of school choice reforms enacted into law next year, a panel of legislators said Tuesday during a luncheon on school choice.
Published: Monday, September 24th, 2012 @ 11:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A rocky second day of the Democratic National Convention almost ended with a flourish, as former President Bill Clinton formally nominated President Obama for a second term of office.
Published: Friday, September 7th, 2012 @ 7:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Spending tax dollars on preschool intervention for at-risk North Carolina children may be a worthwhile idea.
Published: Wednesday, August 29th, 2012 @ 4:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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he substitution of a chicken nugget lunch at a Hoke County pre-kindergarten program in January has done more than raise a few eyebrows. It has raised the ire of many who believe that government is overstepping its regulatory bounds.
Published: Thursday, April 5th, 2012 @ 8:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After public outcry over the suspension and resignation of the preschool teacher involved in the nationally reported "chicken nugget" incident, and pressure from a state lawmaker to reinstate her, the Hoke County Board of Education released her personnel file and other documents March 19.
Published: Saturday, March 24th, 2012 @ 12:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The teacher involved in "supplementing" a preschooler's lunch with chicken nuggets in Hoke County has been suspended indefinitely.
Published: Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 @ 4:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Even though government officials admit mistakes were made in the way a Hoke County preschool program handled lunches students brought from home, they continue to enforce the regulations that caused a nationwide uproar.
Published: Saturday, February 25th, 2012 @ 2:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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