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Sunday marked two years since the Leandro school funding case was last heard in court — and the state Supreme Court still has not issued a decision. It’s the latest delay in a case that goes back to 1994 — and nobody really knows what the holdup is.
Lydia Schweickart for NPR
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NC Supreme Court YouTube channelPublic education advocates gathered in Raleigh on Wednesday urging the North Carolina Supreme Court to end its two-year silence on the long-running Leandro school funding case. -
PixabayOn average, North Carolina is slightly ahead of the rest of the country in terms of getting kids ready for kindergarten – but children from lower-income families are lagging behind their peers, new federal data shows.
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The trainings are part of a statewide initiative to address staffing shortages in the child care field. -
New data from the U.S. Education Department show the extent of international gifts and contracts to colleges and universities. -
A majority of Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools staff signed a petition calling for a budget with no further cuts to positions, programs, wages and benefits, as well as additional staffing. -
Cabarrus County Schools is implementing a temporary enrollment cap at W. R. Odell Primary School and W.R. Odell Elementary School. -
North Carolina schools saw a decrease in crimes for the third year in a row, and saw the crime rate fall by about 8% to 7.43 incidents per 1,000 students -
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools says it’s offering new grade-level instructional materials that families can access online in the event of absences due to illness, weather or other unforeseen circumstances. -
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools says it’s planning to provide more “pass-through” funding for charter schools over the next few years. That’s a reflection of data that forecasts charter school enrollment growth. -
Congress recently passed a spending plan that would maintain funding levels for federal education programs that many school districts feared could get cut. -
More than 23,000 high school seniors have accepted direct admission offers from North Carolina colleges and universities through a new statewide program. -
The North Carolina State Board of Education has approved its annual list of funding request priorities ahead of the General Assembly’s short session in April.
