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With legislature in session, focus on school meals for all sharpens
“Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear aprons!” reads a post on the School Meals For All NC website. The coalition and schools across the state celebrated School Lunch Hero Day on May 5, a day when advocates “celebrate the great work school nutrition professionals do every day across the state and the positive impacts they make on students.”…
STEM Road Trip: Meet this park ranger turned Henderson County science teacher
Behind the Story In this series, we are visiting the classrooms of this year’s Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) Career and Science award winners.…
Perspective | Be a 2023 summer learning superhero
Summer is just around the corner and, at the North Carolina Early Childhood Foundation (NCECF), we’re doing our part to help summer program providers be Summer Learning Superheroes. …
The Editor’s Notes
Our analysis of the Senate budget will post later today. Here is the bill. Here is the conference committee report. The AP is reporting that “The Senate proposal is slated to go through three committees Tuesday and recorded floor votes Wednesday and Thursday.”
Senate: Appropriations/Base Budget Time: 8:30 AM | Location: 643 LOB | STREAM
Senate: Finance Time: 1:00 PM | Location: 544 LOB | STREAM
Senate: Pensions and Retirement and Aging Time: 2:00 PM | Location: 544 LOB | STREAM
Our survey of parents in western NC will be open through the end of the month. If you live out west or are from out west, please post and share with parents. This survey will inform our work and the work of the Dogwood Health Trust.
Need to know
Awake58 | The Senate budget is here. What did community colleges receive?
Nation's early look at the Senate budget and what it may mean for community colleges.... Read the rest
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North Carolina Senate unveils state budget with deeper tax cuts, lower raises than House proposal
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NC legislators get an education visiting schools to see what’s happening firsthand
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What's in the NC Senate's proposed budget for K-12 education?
