The Editor’s Notes

Enjoy the holiday weekend.

The N.C. General Assembly is taking a summer break.  The House and the Senate will reconvene at 7pm on Monday, July 13.

Governor Pat McCrory announces that North Carolina will receive more than $23 million to expand Wi-Fi access to K-12 classrooms throughout the state, bringing the total funding for this initiative to nearly $40 million.

Need to know

• K-12 Issues Within Broad Sweep of Recent High Court Rulings

  Education Week | July 2, 2015

• Lower-income students to top colleges: A little help here!

  The Hechinger Report | July 2, 2015

• Speak Up! Change the World! Ruin your Career!

  EducationNext | July 2, 2015

• The Myth of a Teacher’s ‘Summer Vacation’

  The Atlantic | July 2, 2015

• 'Kite Runner' stays on schools' approved reading list

  Asheville Citizen-Times | July 2, 2015

• In funding DPS, education, achievement, accountability matter

  Durham Herald-Sun | July 2, 2015

• Interim no more: Bill Harrison sworn in as ABSS superintendent

  Greensboro News & Record | July 2, 2015

• The Supreme Court To Hear Case About Whether Teachers Have To Pay Unions

  The Huffington Post | July 1, 2015

• Backers of Bush nonprofit include banks, schools, lottery

  AP: Fox | July 2, 2015

• NEA Convention 2015: Priorities and Challenges

  Education Week | July 2, 2015

• Success of nontraditional NCHSAA schools still draws controversy

  Carteret County News-Times | July 1, 2015

• How strict rules are making school lunches unsustainable

  Raleigh News & Observer | July 1, 2015

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