9/19/2023

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Lauren Lampron to lead North Carolina Principal Fellows Program

by Mebane Rash | September 19, 2023

Dr. Lauren Lampron has been named the new director of the North Carolina Principal Fellows Program, according to a press release. She was selected by the North Carolina Principal Fellows Program Commission. Who is Lauren Lampron? Many of you know...

State Board of Community Colleges approves presidential goals, discusses strategic plan metrics

by Hannah Vinueza McClellan | September 18, 2023

Last week, the State Board of Community Colleges approved its Year 1 goals for N.C. Community College System’s (NCCCS) President Dr. Jeff Cox, who started in the role on June 1. Those goals include leading the system’s strategic plan initiatives,...

Perspective | Critical conversations with Scott Hamilton and Dr. John Lumpkin

by Golden LEAF Foundation | September 18, 2023

Recently, Golden LEAF President and CEO Scott Hamilton sat down with the President of the BlueCross and BlueShield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) Foundation Dr. John Lumpkin via Zoom and filmed an episode of “Critical Conversations.” The BCBSNC Foundation is a private, charitable...

The Editor’s Notes

Yesterday, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack sent letters to 16 governors emphasizing the over $12 billion disparity in funding between land-grant Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and their non-HBCU land-grant peers in their states.

Here is the press release. Here are all of the letters. Here is the letter to Governor Cooper.

Need to know

• U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Reaches Agreement to Resolve Sex Discrimination and Harassment Investigation of Nash County Public Schools in North Carolina

  US Department of Education | September 13, 2023

• ‘We’ve lost our advantage on education’: Democrats grasp for wins on public schools

  Politico | September 17, 2023

• ANN DOSS HELMS REPORTS | CMS board takes a hard look at goals and sacrifices

  WFAE | September 18, 2023

• Could Asheville City, Buncombe County schools be merging? Study mandated by NC legislature

  Asheville Citizen-Times | September 18, 2023

• He teaches Spanish to first-graders in Greensboro. Now he's the first Latino educator to become Guilford schools' teacher of the year

  Greensboro News & Record | September 16, 2023