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This home-based child care program is serving farmworkers’ children in new ways through Head Start

by Liz Bell and Sophia Luna | April 13, 2026

In 2024, Mama Freda’s Tiny Tots Child Care opened as Grow Early Learning’s first in-home child care program in North Carolina. The licensed family child care home (FCCH) in Kings Mountain is one of four of its kind across three...

Greensboro students use mock trial as a platform for advocacy

by Jyanne Guide | April 13, 2026

The Beloved Community Center, a Greensboro-based organization rooted in justice and community engagement, opened the first day of its annual NC Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission Summit a bit differently this year. Instead of a keynote, the first voices at...

Perspective | Students find shared humanity and deepened learning through bilingual performance

by Blake Wilson | April 13, 2026

As kindergarten and first grade students file into the gym at New Hope Elementary in Orange County on a brisk winter morning, an excited buzz of young voices fills the air. For many of these students, it is their first...

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The Editor’s Notes

Need to know

• How Colleges Want to Tweak Workforce Pell Regs

  Inside Higher Ed | April 10, 2026

• Rhonda Dillingham | A major federal grant will fuel the growth of NC’s charter schools

  The Charlotte Observer | April 8, 2026

• 2026 Economic County Snapshots for North Carolina

  NC Budget & Tax Center | April 9, 2026

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