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North Carolina waives school performance grades for 2020-21 school year
Gov. Roy Cooper signed a bill on Monday that includes performance measure waivers the State Board of Education has been seeking for months.…

Blessed by Cooper, Berger, and Moore, bipartisan Hunt-Lee Commission gets underway
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.…

Perspective | Women excelling in CCCC Building Technology program
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,” even when she wasn’t old enough to do much with it.…
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Increasing child COVID hospitalizations filling pediatric ICUs, Triangle hospitals say
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.... Read the rest