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State Board of Education considers what it will ask legislature to do about PEPSC’s teacher licensure and pay proposal
The State Board of Education prepared this week to consider the licensure and pay reform proposal that a state commission has been working on for the last year and half.…

State Board of Education looks ahead to long session budget requests
The State Board of Education began preliminary consideration of what members and the state Department of Public Instruction (DPI) plan to ask the legislature to give the state’s public school system in the 2023 long session of the state legislature that begins in January.…

In celebration of Farm to School month, Craven County students test locally sourced, healthy school meals
Last week at Vanceboro Farm Life Elementary School in Craven County, the lunchtime routine looked a little different. As culinary students from West Craven High School served individually portioned test kitchen recipes they made, they were flanked by fifth graders in the school’s courtyard presenting research posters to their younger peers about healthy food groups.…

Perspective | What a wonderful world?
Mother Nature has blessed North Carolina with a gloriously vivid fall. Red maples have punctuated the treescape with exclamation points. As usual, at high schools across the state, fall sports drew to campuses parents, grandparents, friends, and classmates as spectators.…
The Editor’s Notes
We celebrated the 10th anniversary of the leadership of MC Belk Pilon and the Belk Endowment last night. Keep pounding!
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NCDHHS Announces First Pediatric Flu Death of 2022-23 Season, Urges Flu Vaccination for Everyone 6 Months and Older
North Carolina has seen a rapid early rise in flu cases in recent weeks after two years of relatively low flu activity since the COVID-19 pandemic began.... Read the rest