There’s been significant turnover in leadership across North Carolina’s early care and learning landscape since the last long session of the General Assembly in 2023. The landscape itself looks different, too. After it tumbled over the pandemic-era federal funding cliff...
Many in the higher education community designate February as Financial Aid Awareness Month to provide crucial information to students and families about student financial aid. College for North Carolina, formerly the College Foundation of North Carolina (CFNC), now is promoting...
On Wednesday, Jan. 29, Gov. Josh Stein was welcomed back to Eastern Elementary School in Greenville by student leaders and a green smoothie. Having previously visited before the 2024 election, Stein was excited to return during the school’s wellness week,...
“Why am I here?” Keegan Storrs said that he tries to keep that question at the forefront when designing educational experiences for his students. Most of the year, he is a Spanish instructor at North Carolina School of Science and...
“Old Fort is a college town,” said McDowell Technical Community College President Dr. J.W. Kelley during a ribbon cutting ceremony for the college’s recently completed Workforce Education Center. The ribbon cutting ceremony was delayed nearly four months after Hurricane Helene...
The Editor’s Notes
In addition to our profile on public school choice which published today, there are a few things we didn’t get to during National School Choice week given the high volume of news last week. In January, ProPublica released this private school database. ExcelinEd launched schoolchoicematters.org. And this article from Education Week highlights superintendents talking about choice in public schools. Annually Harvard hosts a conference on school choice. This year it is May 8-9, and the focus is “School Choice: Tradeoffs and Evidence-based Policy Making.
Back here in North Carolina, the House convenes at 11 a.m. and the Senate convenes at 2 p.m.
Governor Josh Stein will announce his proposed budget to fund Helene recovery and rebuilding in western North Carolina at 11 a.m.
The N.C. State Board of Education meets this week. Here is the agenda for Wednesday. Here is the agenda for Thursday.
This grant focuses on supporting organizations working in the fields of health and wellness, education, and economic development with specific concentration directed towards Camber’s funding priorities....
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