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$8 million investment will help support high-quality early learning for children in NC Pre-K
Published: Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 @ 4:38 am
By: Governor's Office
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Funding will help meet classroom needs to support high-quality early learning for young children enrolled this year
Published: Friday, October 20th, 2023 @ 2:40 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Visits Haw River Elementary to Highlight Need to Protect Public Education from Extreme Legislation
Published: Thursday, June 15th, 2023 @ 12:19 am
By: Governor's Office
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper and North Carolina Department of Information Technology Secretary Jim Weaver toured Southern School of Energy and Sustainability in Durham.
Published: Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 @ 10:48 am
By: Governor's Office
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper visited Winter Park Elementary School in Wilmington and highlighted his recommended budget investments to support teachers, students and schools.
Published: Friday, April 7th, 2023 @ 11:03 am
By: Governor's Office
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RALEIGH: Governor Roy Cooper today highlighted his recommended investments in schools, teachers and families with visits to Scurlock Elementary School in Hoke County and Northern Guilford High School in Guilford County.
Published: Tuesday, March 21st, 2023 @ 7:48 am
By: Governor's Office
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today launched Raise North Carolina, a public education campaign about the value of the state’s early care and learning network to support children’s healthy development
Published: Wednesday, July 13th, 2022 @ 10:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Roy Cooper today released his recommended budget for FY 2022-2023, Building on Success. The plan put forth by the Governor presents a budget that builds on the state’s success by investing in North Carolina families, businesses, and communities.
Published: Thursday, May 12th, 2022 @ 9:33 am
By: Governor's Office
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today launched its first online data dashboard visualizing information and trends about the statewide early care and learning network.
Published: Wednesday, January 26th, 2022 @ 4:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Governor’s Commission on Access to a Sound Basic Education is getting closer to putting forth recommendations to meet the Leandro mandate.
Published: Wednesday, June 26th, 2019 @ 3:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The fast-moving trains advocating for state-funded pre-K programs in North Carolina and elsewhere lost some steam this week with the release of two reports
Published: Tuesday, July 24th, 2018 @ 5:30 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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State Republican legislative leaders announced a fix to the class size mandate, which would phase in smaller class sizes in kindergarten through third grade over the next four years instead of an immediate fix this school year
Published: Friday, February 9th, 2018 @ 8:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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More than 1,800 additional 4-year-olds will attend the NC Pre-K program this fall thanks to efforts by Governor Roy Cooper to expand the state's pre-kindergarten education program
Published: Wednesday, August 30th, 2017 @ 3:17 am
By: Governor's Office
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The state House approved early Friday morning its proposed budget, which totals $22.9 billion in General Fund spending
Published: Monday, June 5th, 2017 @ 4:40 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The North Carolina Senate's budget plan would increase state spending at half the rate proposed by Gov. Roy Cooper and include a tax cut package projected to save taxpayers $1 billion over its first two years of implementation
Published: Monday, May 29th, 2017 @ 1:46 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The recent decision by the State Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of school vouchers has turned supporters toward the future and critics toward raising the volume on public discussion.
Published: Sunday, August 30th, 2015 @ 5:20 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Gov. Pat McCrory yesterday released his budget proposal for the next biennium. In odd-numbered years like this one, the legislature passes a two-year budget plan, and the following year will make adjustments to the second year of the plan.
Published: Saturday, March 14th, 2015 @ 8:17 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Incoming kindergartners throughout eastern North Carolina will soon be better prepared for classroom learning thanks to a $1.3 million grant awarded to East Carolina University.
Published: Tuesday, September 16th, 2014 @ 11:22 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The North Carolina House unveiled its two year spending plan on Sunday night. Total spending for FY 2013-14 would come to $20.6 billion - virtually identical to the Senate's budget proposal and Gov. McCrory's budget released in March.
Published: Wednesday, June 12th, 2013 @ 12:45 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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That's how newly elected Governor Pat McCrory described his first state budget proposal at a press conference Wednesday morning.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 @ 11:10 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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A regulatory oversight panel Thursday rejected an effort by the N.C. Child Care Commission to ban religious instruction at schools held at religious facilities that participate in the NC Pre-K program.
Published: Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 @ 8:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Child Care Commission made another attempt Feb. 4 to get a procedural committee that sifts through administrative rules to approve a controversial rule prohibiting religious instruction at NC Pre-K centers.
Published: Monday, February 11th, 2013 @ 1:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Educating our kids is an expensive proposition. Some blame the dismal results we achieve on the teacher's unions and their work rules, class size, tenure, lack of parental interest, the breakdown of the family, poverty.
Published: Sunday, June 3rd, 2012 @ 9:01 am
By: Jim Bispo
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In 2011 North Carolina lawmakers passed a two-year state budget which legislators are reviewing this year. The current budget has built in increases of roughly a quarter billion dollars for the second year, and decisions were made based on revenue forecasts at that time.
Published: Saturday, May 26th, 2012 @ 6:28 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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School lunch inspections, such as the one at West Hoke Elementary School that garnered national attention, could be avoided in the future if the NC Child Care Commission doesn't ignore a recommendation from the General Assembly and its own attorney.
Published: Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 @ 11:46 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Even though government officials admit mistakes were made in the way a Hoke County preschool program handled lunches students brought from home, they continue to enforce the regulations that caused a nationwide uproar.
Published: Saturday, February 25th, 2012 @ 2:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A mother in Hoke County complains her daughter was forced to eat a school lunch because a government inspector determined her home-made lunch did not meet nutrition requirements.
Published: Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 @ 4:50 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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