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Your guide to North Carolina’s 58 community colleges
Contents What is the NCCCS? Governance and structure Enrollment and tuition Funding overview What to expect for the FY 2023-25 biennium Community college changed Paralee Cox’s life. …

N.C. Community College System leaders present $232 million request to lawmakers
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.…

Cooper celebrates literacy at a school celebrating diversity, inclusion, and the science of reading
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.…

North Carolina infants are more likely to die in their first year than the national average — especially if they’re Black
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.…

Perspective | Celebrating North Carolina’s HBCUs: A rich past and a bright future
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.…
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.
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