Gov. Roy Cooper signed a bill on Monday that includes performance measure waivers the State Board of Education has been seeking for months. Unlike the 2019-2020 school year, North Carolina students had to take year-end tests during the 2020-2021 school...
Today, The Hunt Institute launched the Hunt-Lee Commission, “which will identify and apply high-impact strategies for strengthening systems across the education continuum in North Carolina,” according to the press release. North Carolina’s “education governor,” Gov. Jim Hunt, is the chair...
Grace Whittington was always fascinated with construction. Thinking back on it now, the 17-year-old can’t recall exactly how she got interested or why, but she has vivid memories of playing with Legos as a child and “doing stuff with wood,”...
As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to surge in North Carolina, the coronavirus and other respiratory diseases are causing sick children to fill up pediatric intensive care units in the Triangle....
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