5/16/2024
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This charter school is ‘destigmatizing difference’ for students with learning differences
Editor’s Note: This week is National Charter School Week. Evergreen Community Charter School is featured in Chapter 4 of EdNC’s book titled “North Carolina’s Choice: Why our public schools matter.” Here is a free PDF of the book. A printed copy...
New charter school report shows growing student waitlist in North Carolina
During the 2023-24 school year, 169 of the state’s 210 charter schools reported having a waitlist, according to a new report from the Department of Public Instruction (DPI). Together, the waitlist totals more than 85,000 students. However, that number could...
Indigenous artist and Sampson students hand build with clay
“Did we talk about this one? What do y’all see?” asked artist Senora Lynch to a room full of seventh graders at Midway Middle School. As Lynch held up a piece of her pottery, responses started flying from students —...
Perspective | We are child care professionals. We are infrastructure. We need long-term stabilization
Together and united, we are here. We are the child care professionals of Care-O-World Early Learning Centers. We teach, we love, and we care for our children — North Carolina’s children. We are united in our work. We lead, we...
The Editor’s Notes
EdNC early childhood reporter Liz Bell and policy analyst Katie Dukes will be on WUNC’s Due South program at 10 a.m. today to talk about their work visiting five states to learn how North Carolina can combat its child care crisis. You can tune in live or find the episode later here.
The State Board of Community Colleges meets today. Here is the agenda.
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ICYMI: North Carolina once led the way in early childhood policy and investment. Five other states are showing us how to do it again.
We found four effective strategies to make early education a public good: advocacy from the business community, grassroots organizing, streamlining governance, and identifying/creating new funding streams. Read the rest
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North Carolina High School Students Place First in the Southeast Jr. Chef Competition
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Smaller surplus could lead to funding change for school vouchers, Moore says. Rebates and video gambling uncertain
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‘Out of hand.’ CMS wants rules if NC private schools get $463M in new voucher money
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