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The Editor’s Notes
The N.C. State Board of Education meets today. Here is the agenda.
An update from EducationCounsel, “On 2/3/26, the House of Representatives passed the same FY26 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor/HHS) Appropriations bill that the Senate passed last week, clearing the way for President Trump to sign the bill into law later that same day…. The bill largely maintains funding for almost all education programs at their current levels, rejecting President Trump’s requests to cut USED’s budget by 15%, consolidate 18 K-12 programs into a block grant, and eliminate the Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five program, among other things.”
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School choice supporters keep moving the goal posts
The number of people who support charter schools and private school choice is shrinking. One cause of the growing divide is that some private school choice advocates are making demands that are "increasingly outlandish."... Read the rest
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75,000 Undocumented Students Graduate U.S. High Schools Annually Amid Growing Policy Threats
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FAFSA completions for class of 2026 outpacing last year’s
