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Northside, Greene Central baseball advance to state final
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — Eastern NC high school baseball teams went 2-for-2 in wrapping up East Regional titles on Friday. Just hours after Northside High School wrapped up the Class 1-A East Regional title in Pinetown, Greene Central did the same in Snow Hill in the Class 2-A East Regional final. Both teams join South […]
DEI opponents expand their map with North Carolina
Opponents of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs scored a major victory this month in North Carolina, with the state’s flagship public university preemptively moving funds away from DEI due to fears of a ban, indicating that dangers to the policies are growing even beyond conservative strongholds. Red states including Texas and Florida have…
Period supplies in schools are critical to education and health, schools and advocates say
Every day, North Carolina students who cannot afford period supplies are forced to ask teachers or school staff for feminine hygiene products. Some students miss school because they don’t have tampons or menstrual pads at home. Advocates for ending “period poverty,” the lack of access to supplies due to lack of income, met at the […] The post Period supplies in schools are critical to education and health, schools and advocates say appeared first on NC Newsline.
NC legislators continue to ignore teacher vacancy crisis
In 2023 state policymakers were confronted with alarming data: teacher vacancies had hit record highs. Not only did 1 in every 18 classrooms lack a licensed teacher, but districts serving the greatest share of Black students and students from families with low incomes faced the greatest shortages. In other words, the teacher shortage had reached […] The post NC legislators continue to ignore teacher vacancy crisis appeared first on NC Newsline.
Recent data shows North Carolina schools are more segregated now than they were in the late 1980s
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — School integration was a vision many believed could actually happen 70 years ago, but as decades passed, recent numbers show progress has regressed. "Our viewpoints need to change, the way that we look at other cultures needs to change, and the way that we integrate our schools needs to change," CMS sophomore Quentin Canty told WCNC Charlotte's Tradesha Woodard.
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