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2/3/2025

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Who’s who in North Carolina’s early care and learning landscape?
by Katie Dukes |
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...

McDowell Tech opens workforce center in Old Fort months after Helene
by Emily Thomas |
“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.

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Camber Foundation announces $1 million grant program

 Camber Foundation | January 31, 2025

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. Read the rest

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Mebane Rash

Mebane Rash is the CEO and editor-in-chief of EducationNC.