The consensus revenue forecast for North Carolina was released on Wednesday, projecting an extra $3.25 billion in state revenues for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022-23.…
The week after the announcement that lawmakers had formed a bipartisan historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU) Caucus, HBCU students visited the legislature to advocate for their schools.…
LatinxEd just finished their year-and-a-half-long statewide listening tour, #SomosNC. The organization held 250 conversations with students, parents, educators, and community leaders in 36 counties. …
When Susannah High heard in 2021 that public funds would pay for one person at each community college to receive mental health training, she jumped at the opportunity.…
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Tom Swiderski, Sarah Crittenden Fuller, Camille Mikkelsen and Kevin Bastian
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While it is well-documented that the pandemic caused large declines in student test scores, recent research by our team at the Education Policy Initiative at Carolina (EPIC) shows that impacts on education outcomes extended far beyond End-of-Grade and End-of-Course exams.…
I started my career in the mid-1990s as an admissions staff member and met with many individual students (walk-ins, as we called them) about how to gain admission.…
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The Professional Educator Preparation and Standards Commission (PEPSC) will hold a virtual meeting this morning at 9 a.m. Find the agenda here. Livestream the meeting here.
A 2010 federal law that boosted nutrition standards for school meals may have begun to help slow the rise in obesity among America's children — even teenagers who can buy their own snacks, a new study showed....
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