The Editor’s Notes

Yesterday, the Triangle Community Foundation hosted its 2016 What Matters event, initiating a community conversation about how and why we must work together to build healthy communities. EdNC was there with the students, teachers, and the Jamie Kirk Hahn Foundation. Check out the #WhatMatters.

Governor Bev Perdue hosted a bipartisan group of educators, entrepreneurs, and policymakers in Durham yesterday to discuss digital learning and early childhood. Learn more about DigiLearn.

 

Need to know

• Low Performers Show Big Declines on 12th Grade NAEP Test

  Education Week | April 27, 2016

• U.S. Supreme Court Strengthens Public-Employee Speech Protections

  Education Week | April 26, 2016

• Restoring sanity to the debate over transgender bathroom use

  The Washington Post | April 26, 2016

• Johnston County schools suing NC retirement system

  The News & Observer | April 26, 2016

• College free speech: Hecklers on NC campuses under scrutiny

  WRAL | April 27, 2016

• State Support Recovering, but Not Recovered

  Inside Higher Ed | April 27, 2016

• NC sues 14 months after audit finds charter school money mismanaged

  AP: The Greensboro News & Record | April 26, 2016

• How Elections Will Impact Congressional Education Committees

  Education Week | April 27, 2016

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