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In Hyde County, two new solutions to an internet ‘desert’

by Analisa Sorrells and Robert Kinlaw | May 25, 2021

One morning in early April, a package from Starlink landed on Nancy Leach’s front porch. Leach lives on Ocracoke Island, a 16-mile-long strip of land accessible only by boat and separated from mainland Hyde County by the Pamlico Sound.…

Perspective | Learning from COVID-19: What principals told us

by Douglas Price | May 25, 2021

As state leaders, policymakers, and public school systems across North Carolina debated when and how to return safely to in-person learning, WakeEd Partnership hosted three focus groups to discuss remote learning and school re-entry with Wake County Public Schools students, teachers, and principals.…

The Editor’s Notes

Webinar today | Today at 10 a.m., join myFutureNC for a webinar on the recently-announced Longleaf Commitment program that guarantees graduating high school seniors from low-income and middle-class families have a clear, affordable path to earn a college degree. The webinar will discuss the goals of the program and student eligibility. Learn more and register here.

Need to know

• As school districts move from "reopening" to "recovery," what will they be recovering from?

  Center on Reinventing Public Education | May 25, 2021

• A perfect high school graduation rate: Asheville, Buncombe have a plan to get there

  Asheville Citizen-Times | May 24, 2021

• ‘Nine Minutes and 29 Seconds’: Students at a Suburban Minneapolis HS Mark 1st Anniversary of George Floyd’s Death, Push for Change

  The 74 | May 25, 2021

• Colleges face reckoning as plummeting birthrate worsens enrollment declines

  The Hechinger Report | May 22, 2021

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Analisa Sorrells is a Master in Public Policy candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School and previously worked as chief of staff and associate director of policy for EducationNC.