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School voucher changes will benefit North Carolina’s wealthiest households
Think of the things that you’ll be doing over the next year—planning a vacation to the beach, getting some tacos at a restaurant, hosting a regular game night with friends, or volunteering at a local food pantry. Imagine if you could receive thousands of dollars of public subsidy to do these activities you were already […] The post School voucher changes will benefit North Carolina’s wealthiest households appeared first on NC Newsline.
New Automotive Technician Training Program Launches at Sandhills Community College
The Collision Engineering program is expanding to include Sandhills Community College in Pinehurst, North Carolina. This program, developed by the Enterprise Mobility Foundation and Ranken Technical College, aims to address the shortage of skilled technicians in the automotive collision industry. It is expected to help fill more than 110,000 job openings by 2027.
Mitchell column: B&G 3rd-graders take first place in academic contest
In December, the North Carolina Alliance of Boys & Girl Clubs contacted sites across the state with a very attractive proposal. They were seeking groups that were interested in participating in a pilot partnership with Edentum, a company that provides online academic programming. The pilot begins with diagnostic testing and then gives each student a computer based “Exact Path” of targeted lessons and testing to increase their proficiency in math and reading. This pilot has a $4,500 value and we jumped at the opportunity to...
Smaller surplus could lead to funding change for school vouchers, Moore says. Rebates and video gambling uncertain
Republican state lawmakers are still planning to add hundreds of millions of dollars to the state’s private school tuition voucher program for the upcoming school year. But a smaller projected surplus could make it more challenging to find the funding, North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore said Wednesday. Moore...
Alexander Jones: Lesson plan requirement targets teachers
The North Carolina Republican Party has selected a new target. A new piece of legislation, filed last week, dictates that teachers post their lesson plans online in documents accompanied by their legal names. (And this, after the same Republican lawmakers voted to make their own official business secret from the public.) The clear intent is to intimidate. What the GOP is doing by, in effect, sending schoolteachers to the stocks is setting up another wave of vilification to stoke their base’s lust for revenge. Vilification,...
Divisive or beneficial? Questions linger as UNC system looks to cut diversity programs
NC's public university system to vote this week to repeal diversity policies. The leadership of North Carolina’s public university system is expected to vote this week to repeal its diversity policies, raising questions of what’s to come for thousands of minority students at the state’s 17 UNC System campuses and hundreds of professors and staff who work to promote diversity, equity and inclusion.
UNC-Chapel Hill’s Board Divests DEI Funds To Policing
The news comes ahead a statewide board vote to reverse DEI policy in North Carolina. The board at UNC-Chapel Hill has voted to divest funding from its DEI programming and will instead redistribute the money into public safety resources, including policing. The flagship school within the North Carolina public university...
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