5/3/2024

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Three higher education trends to watch

by Emily Thomas | May 2, 2024

The higher education landscape has been changing for years.  From transfer and retention woes to a forecasted enrollment cliff among 18-20 year-olds, colleges have made a number of operational and policy changes to remain relevant in an increasingly dynamic world. ...

Ask & Answer | Parents on Opportunity Scholarship and ESA waitlists have questions

by Mebane Rash | May 2, 2024

As House Bill 823 moves through the legislature this short session to clear the waitlists for Opportunity Scholarships and ESA+ Accounts, parents on those waitlists have questions. “For those of us it effects,” a parent with a son on the...

First ‘State of the Child’ summit calls for resources to systems supporting youth, from child care to mental health

by Liz Bell | May 2, 2024

The first State of the Child Summit, hosted Tuesday by nonprofits NC Child and the North Carolina Institute of Medicine, painted a picture of systems struggling to support the state’s youth. Experts shared updates on a child care system facing...

Perspective | Children in the gap: The space between preschool expulsion and special education

by Mandee LaCroix | May 2, 2024

“I feel like everyone has given up on him,” a grandmother told me after her grandson was asked to leave his third child care center in 18 months. This grandmother has been working with her son, a single father, to...

The Editor’s Notes

Several great job openings at the Golden LEAF Foundation.

Here is the Governor’s proclamation on inclusive postsecondary education.

Here is your playlist for the weekend. Thank you, Jeff McDaris!

A huge shout out and thank you today and every day to our school lunch heroes!

Need to know

• North Carolina Senate OKs $500 million for private school vouchers, student accounts

  AP | May 2, 2024

• ‘Transformative’: More college programs are slowly coming into prisons

  Stateline | April 29, 2024