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Amid COVID-19, summer meals efforts innovate in the face of uncertainty

by Analisa Sorrells | July 1, 2020

This story is a partnership between EdNC.org and Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity. Spotlight is a non-partisan initiative that gathers diverse perspectives to tell compelling stories illustrating the economic hardship confronting millions of Americans and to lift up genuine solutions.…

Perspective | Let students reimagine our schools

by Andrew Lakis | July 1, 2020

As planning for the new school year ramps up in North Carolina, educational leaders are navigating unprecedented disruption, with no clear playbook, at a time when the inequities in our educational system have been laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic and a renewed national awareness of centuries of racism and injustice.…

The Editor’s Notes

The State Board of Education will meet remotely Wednesday and Thursday, July 8 and 9, for its regular monthly meeting. The agendas for this meeting and executive summaries are available online.

Need to know

• Anti-Blackness and the way forward for K-12 schooling

  Brookings | July 1, 2020

• Recruiting and Retaining Diverse Teachers: Why It Matters, Ways to Do It

  Education Week | July 2, 2020

• Cooper delays NC school reopening decision while poll shows public divided over plans

  The Charlotte Observer | July 1, 2020

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