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Alex Granados, Liz Bell and Hannah Vinueza McClellan
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The House dropped its spending plan for the biennium during a press conference Wednesday. The proposal includes 7.50% across-the-board pay raises for teachers over the biennium and $70 million additional dollars for a program that helps districts provide higher supplements...
President Pro Tem Sen. Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, announced Wednesday the filing of Senate Bill 406, titled “Choose Your School, Choose Your Future.” You can find the bill here. The press release says the bill, if enacted, would be the “largest...
Last week, primary sponsors and Representatives Loftis, Willis, Bradford, and Chesser introduced House Bill 420, which would send $1 billion in public education funding (your taxpayer dollars) per year to follow students to whatever education option a parent chooses, regardless...
Katie Loovis has been named as the North Carolina Community Colleges Foundation’s first full-time executive director, according to a press release from the foundation. The foundation is a nonprofit organization established in 1986 to enhance the capacity of North Carolina’s...
National Read Aloud Month occurs annually in March. The majority of young children’s brains are formed in their early years, and experiences that center around nurturing from a caregiver help support this healthy development. Reading aloud is one of the...
The bill in Florida -- similar to the one filed yesterday in NC -- just passed. Note the suggestion that private schools should be clearly rated -- like our early child care centers perhaps -- if this moves forward....
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