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Local Government Commission Approves Over $300 Million in Financing Requests
Published: Sunday, March 24th, 2024 @ 8:01 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The state Supreme Court will take another look at a 29-year-old court case dealing with state education funding.
Published: Thursday, February 22nd, 2024 @ 12:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A new state audit has revealed a troubling trend for student attendance records in six North Carolina school districts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Thursday, February 15th, 2024 @ 10:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A federal court in California is likely to hear the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board's lawsuit against major social media companies.
Published: Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 @ 9:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A $2.5-billion-dollar bond referendum is slated to be placed on the November ballot this year, as Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) looks for support to fund 30 different projects in the school district.
Published: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 10:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board is suing owners of major social media platforms for contributing to a "mental health crisis" among American children.
Published: Saturday, November 25th, 2023 @ 8:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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WCPSS Spends 75% of Covid Dollars on Salaries and Benefits, Little to Nothing on Tutoring
Published: Tuesday, October 17th, 2023 @ 6:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Funding will help to hire more trainers, purchase training buses and provide retention bonuses to trainers
Published: Thursday, October 12th, 2023 @ 9:58 am
By: Governor's Office
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RALEIGH: Over the past few weeks, Governor Roy Cooper has continued to sound the alarm on dangerous Republican plans that would gut funding for public education and expand private school vouchers so anyone – even a millionaire – can get taxpayer money for their children’s private school tuition.
Published: Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 @ 9:24 am
By: Governor's Office
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North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper has once again proclaimed April as Financial Literacy Month. State Employees’ Credit Union (SECU) kicked off its efforts by teaming up with CUNA Mutual Group and Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Schools to host a multi-school SECU Reality of Money® event
Published: Saturday, May 6th, 2023 @ 12:35 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The judge in the long-running Leandro education funding case could set the state's funding obligation between $376 million and $677 million.
Published: Sunday, April 16th, 2023 @ 8:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Almost a month after a jury ruled against her, a former Charlotte-Mecklenburg student is appealing her case to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Published: Tuesday, March 7th, 2023 @ 10:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Remember these numbers. $442 million and $306.7 million. Those figures represent how much money Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) has received in federal covid relief funds and how much money the district has actually spent.
Published: Tuesday, January 17th, 2023 @ 12:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Beginning with 11 students in 1997, the homeschool curriculum Classical Conversations now has over 140,000 students enrolled across 50 countries.
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 @ 8:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper toured Allenbrook Elementary School in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and delivered supplies collected from the Governor’s School Supply Drive. Supplies, including paper, pens, pencils, notebooks and sanitizing wipes, are being delivered to schools across the state
Published: Friday, September 16th, 2022 @ 4:29 am
By: Governor's Office
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A day before Wednesday's arguments in the Leandro case, justices voted along party lines to reject lawmakers' request to drop the plaintiffs Earls represented.
Published: Saturday, September 3rd, 2022 @ 12:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Stories about educator employment too often rely on anecdotal evidence, hearsay, and politically motivated testimonials
Published: Tuesday, August 16th, 2022 @ 9:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Court of Appeals delivered a blow Tuesday to a lawsuit against a 2018 state law allowing some towns to sponsor charter schools. The Appeals Court vacated a trial judge’s order that would have allowed the lawsuit to move forward.
Published: Thursday, April 7th, 2022 @ 10:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Parents across North Carolina want their voices heard on what’s best for their children, especially after two years of lockdowns, mask mandates, and changing curriculum.
Published: Sunday, February 27th, 2022 @ 10:11 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed the Free the Smiles Act. The bipartisan measure would have blocked mandatory mask policies in N.C. schools.
Published: Sunday, February 27th, 2022 @ 8:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Public schools have long been under the microscope and deservedly so, since they receive a large amount of our tax dollars and involve our most precious assets - our children
Published: Thursday, February 17th, 2022 @ 11:28 am
By: Tom Campbell
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North Carolina’s self-described teachers’ union still has clout with many Democratic lawmakers in the legislature, but its influence — and popularity — with teachers and everyday North Carolinians appears to be waning.
Published: Sunday, November 21st, 2021 @ 3:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools continues to come under fire for how it has handled allegations from students who say they were sexually assaulted on campus.
Published: Tuesday, November 16th, 2021 @ 2:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Given the freedom to choose whether to mandate masks for students, school boards across the state have begun voting to make face coverings optional for the coming school year.
Published: Sunday, August 8th, 2021 @ 1:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Public school districts in North Carolina have received about $5.3 billion in COVID-related relief from the federal government.
Published: Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 @ 4:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson in March announced the launch of a task force to address growing concern grew among public school parents about political and cultural indoctrination in the classroom
Published: Sunday, August 1st, 2021 @ 8:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper will allow existing state mask mandates to expire on July 30, but he’s recommending required masking for public school students in kindergarten through middle school.
Published: Sunday, August 1st, 2021 @ 12:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The exclusive teaching of Critical Race Theory in public school classrooms would be outlawed under a bill making its way through the N.C. Senate.
Published: Thursday, July 22nd, 2021 @ 4:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislation delaying municipal elections for offices elected by district until 2022 became law on Monday.
Published: Friday, July 9th, 2021 @ 11:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and the Senate’s top officer are calling out Charlotte-Mecklenburg school leaders
Published: Sunday, July 4th, 2021 @ 6:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Glen and Emily Stephens experienced the tragedy of a lifetime in 2012 when their 6-year-old son, Gabriel, died of complications from the flu.
Published: Wednesday, April 21st, 2021 @ 8:57 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced new appointments to North Carolina boards and commissions.
Published: Wednesday, March 10th, 2021 @ 6:48 am
By: Governor's Office
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Public school systems in the Tar Heel State are experiencing the highest declines in student enrollment in decades.
Published: Monday, March 8th, 2021 @ 10:16 am
By: Carolina Journal
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