Community college changed Paralee Cox’s life. Cox graduated from Blue Ridge Community College last May with a credential in surgical technology. Before graduating, Cox was hired by Pardee UNC Health Care as a surgical technician and won the N.C. Community...
N.C. Community College System (NCCCS) leaders presented the system’s $232 million request for increased state funding over the next two years to lawmakers at a joint education appropriations meeting on Tuesday. The system’s updated fiscal year 2022-25 legislative agenda seeks...
Gov. Roy Cooper visited Wilburn Elementary School in Wake County on Tuesday for an early celebration of Read Across America Day, popping into some classrooms and sitting with a group of first graders to read Dr. Seuss’s “Hop on Pop.”...
In the past three decades, the infant death rate has fallen in North Carolina and in the country. The state’s rate dropped 38% from 1991 to 2021, according to the State Center for Health Statistics. Yet North Carolina’s rate —...
In celebration of Black History Month and to highlight the state’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), College Foundation of North Carolina (CFNC) held its third annual virtual N.C. HBCU Showcase last week. Students and parents heard from speakers from...
The Editor’s Notes
The N.C. State Board of Education meets today. Here is the agenda.
The superintendents and presidents of the community colleges are meeting today and tomorrow. Stay tuned.
If you are an educator in these counties and interested in STEM, apply to be a STEMwork Scholar: Cherokee, Clay, Macon, Graham, Swain, Jackson, Haywood, Buncombe, Madison, Transylvania, Avery, Burke, Mitchell, Yancey, Rutherford, Polk, Henderson, McDowell, Cleveland, Edgecombe, Martin, Nash, Beaufort, Craven, Pamlico, Lenoir, Wayne, Jones, Duplin, Onslow, Alamance, Orange, Chatham, & Guilford
