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Tired of seeing barriers disrupt mental health support for students, this district redesigned its process
Lauren Cappola knew she was sounding repetitive, but she felt compelled to ask the same question of her colleagues everywhere she went across the state: How are you connecting children with the mental health services they need? As director of...
In Edgecombe, early learning initiatives are thinking outside the classroom
There are plenty of reasons for a school district not to try new things on top of all the changes of the last two years of pandemic schooling. Yet when Erin Swanson heard of an opportunity to rethink Edgecombe County...
Perspective | A parent ‘knows when something is not right’
Too often, the quote within the title is spoken by Black families searching for an answer for their children who are undiagnosed with autism. Although one in every 44 children in the United States was diagnosed with autism in 2018,...
Perspective | School closures were too risky
When the news broke on January 3 that one of North Carolina’s largest school districts, Cumberland County, was considering a shift to virtual instruction in response to rising case counts of the Omicron variant, I felt my stomach lurch. Again? I...
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