May 20, 2020
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Fund balances: Do school districts have enough in savings to weather COVID-19’s perfect storm?
Available fund balances at most North Carolina school districts are lower than they were in 2013, according to the most recent data from the Local Government Commission (LGC). A combination of factors contributed to this trend, including: the lingering effects...
NC should measure children’s social and emotional health, a report says. Here’s how.
Experts in children’s health are worried about the COVID-19 ordeal’s potential effects on young brains. Especially in the earliest years of children’s lives, research has shown that traumatic experiences greatly affect how children relate to others, process emotions, and respond...
Newsrooms are huddling for warmth and finding a way forward: Lessons from the Collaborative Journalism Summit
After studying journalism and working for my campus newspaper for the last three years, I’ve perfected my response to people who ask why I want to go into this field. They always say journalism is dying or I won’t find...
Rural Talk: Why do small businesses matter?
According to a 2019 report from the U.S Small Business Administration (SBA), there were 30.7 million small businesses in the nation. Those businesses employed around 59.9 million people, or around 47.3% of the United States employees. In North Carolina, they...
Perspective | Lenoir County seniors spread hope through music: ‘It’s gonna be okay’
We all have been trying to make sense of the unprecedented global crisis brought forth by the COVID-19 virus. Much has been written about the crisis. Even more has been said about this uneasy and uncertain time. People around the...
Perspective | How personalized learning practices prepared one school for remote learning
This is the third piece in a five-part series of perspectives from RTI International on competency-based education amid COVID-19. Follow along with the rest of the series here. The thought of learning any time and anywhere is a great idea in theory,...
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