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Wake County is already starting to plan for possible budget cuts next year, but it's hard to plan with no state budget in place! #nced #ncpublicschools
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More cuts, 'difficult decisions' likely in next Wake Schools budget
Financial uncertainty is largely because of uncertainly about what state and federal funding Wake schools will have by the fall of 2026, because of late state budget and possible significant reduction...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Keeping students safe! "School communities across the country are banding together to protect children and families from arrest and deportation on and off campus..." #nced #ncpublicschools
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Resisting ICE in Many Cities Means Keeping Kids in School
Parents, students and immigrant advocates across the U.S. work to thwart enforcement near schools, creating safe passage to class for Trump targets.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Let's see some real accountability for the leaders of schools that accept taxpayer-funded tuition vouchers. Require open elections by the whole community just like public schools and require monthly open meetings. Wouldn't that be interesting! #nced #ncpublicschools #ncpol #ncga
December 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Will this finally succeed? Efforts have been underway for years. The current system is awful because it focuses too little on what schools actually impact (academic growth). Hopefully the new system will include private schools that take vouchers! #nced #ncpublicschools
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Education leaders have long struggled with NC's school letter grades. That system could soon change
A new task force has started work to redesign how the state measures school performance after years of criticism for the current system by education leaders.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality shows that teachers of color improve outcomes for all students, but many teacher prep programs are actively making the teacher workforce less diverse. #nced #ncpublicschools
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Driving Diversity: How Teacher Prep Can Accelerate Progress - National Council on Teacher Quality
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December 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Congratulations to North Carolina's Foreign Language Teacher of the Year - Najoua Ben Ramak, Arabic teacher at Seventy-First High School, Cumberland County Public Schools! #nced #ncpublicschools
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Seventy-First High School Arabic Educator Named Foreign Language Teacher of The Year
Seventy-First High’s Najoua Ben Ramak discusses her Arabic program, her Moroccan roots, and her selection as FLANC’s 2025 Teacher of the Year.
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December 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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We hope more school districts call out the state for underfunding exceptional children services. The legislated cap of 13% and flat funding for all students regardless of disability puts essential services at risk. #nced #ncpublicschools
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NHC school board resolution requests state raise EC funding cap | Port City Daily
NEW HANOVER COUNTY — The New Hanover County Board of Education will take up a resolution Tuesday calling on the state to step up its funding game for exceptional children. Put forth by board member…
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December 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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One way to help WSFCS emerge from their budget challenges is to support the full funding of the Leandro Plan. If legislators met their constitutional obligations to students, WSFCS's budget hole would not exist

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How to help Superintendent Don Phipps and the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools team move forward
As Superintendent Don Phipps begins his tenure, the "All In For Our Schools" campaign provides ways for you to support this district.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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The current administration is destroying the research foundation that helps Americans know what is and isn't working in education policy. For example, the funding that helped MS achieve remarkable reading gains were cancelled in February. #nced #ncpublicschools
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How Trump 2.0 upended education research and statistics in one year
Decades of carefully built infrastructure aimed at improving and tracking how American children learn vanished in an ideological attack
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December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Children of disabled veterans are now poised to lose their scholarship funds due to budget cuts. There are so many things wrong with this. Contact your state and national lawmakers! #nced #ncpublicschools
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NC children of disabled veterans see expanded cuts to scholarships
A state scholarship aimed at giving the children of disabled veterans a chance at a college education is facing budget cuts, leaving students wondering what's next.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Taxpayers and parents in TN filed a lawsuit to halt the state's new voucher program. The suit says the vouchers violate state constitution by diverting public $ to private schools that lack accountability and openly discriminate. Sounds like NC! #nced #ncpublicschools
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Parents and Community Members File Lawsuit Challenging Tennessee's Universal Private School Voucher Program
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November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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More disruption to student learning. This one is preventable!
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Nearly 21,000 Charlotte-Mecklenburg students absent from school on Monday, officials say
Officials did not make it clear if the absences were connected to the on-going immigration operation in the city.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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"The largest amount of grant funding canceled in NC was $90 M for teacher training grants to recruit teachers to work at hard-to-staff schools. The next biggest was for mental health grants, to train & recruit school counselors and psychologists." #nced #ncpublicschools
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A year of upheaval: how much NC public school funding was affected by federal cuts and delays
This year, schools have faced canceled grants, delayed funds, and abrupt decisions by the U.S. Dept. of Education. WUNC tracked $320 million in disrupted funds.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Public dollars should come with public accountability. Safety is a big deal! Currently, only ONE staff member at a private school has to pass a criminal background check. That's just wrong. Make schools that get vouchers follow the same safety guidelines as public schools!
November 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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The new representative selected to fill Rep. Brockman's seat due to his recent resignation is a former educator and High Point Council member. Good news! #nced #ncpublicschools
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High Point Council member Amanda Cook to replace Cecil Brockman in NC House seat
Cook, a former public school teacher, will replace Brockman, who resigned in October after he was charged with child sex offenses.
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November 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Good that the federal government is back to work. Now let's get our state lawmakers working on a budget! #nced #ncpublicschools
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The longest government shutdown in U.S. history comes to a close
President Trump signed a bill to fund the government through the end of January, ending the shutdown that has dragged on for six weeks.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Rural communities are going to get hit again if the federal work visa fees go into effect. This story features Halifax County.
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Rural teacher shortages could get worse thanks to Trump’s visa fee
In Halifax County, North Carolina, 101 of 156 teachers are international. A new $100,000 H-1B visa fee could effectively slam the door on future hires.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Governor Stein has called the NCGA back for a special session to work on a budget. “The Legislature must come back to Raleigh and do its job so that the 3 million North Carolinians who rely on Medicaid can get the care they need.” #nced #ncpublicschools
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Governor, for first time in 7 years, calls Legislature back to Raleigh
Legislators in North Carolina have been called back into session by Gov. Josh Stein to address Medicaid funding.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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An end to the federal government shutdown may be in sight. #nced #ncpublicschools
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Senators take first step toward reopening the government after historic shutdown
The Senate voted late Sunday evening on a compromise that could reopen the government following the longest shutdown in history.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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At the State Board of Education meeting last week, members learned that new charter schools opening this year had much lower enrollments than projected, prompting discussion of closer scrutiny of policies and reliance on projections.
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Lagging enrollment for new North Carolina charter schools raises questions about expansion • NC Newsline
None of the seven charter schools opened this fall met their projected enrollment the North Carolina State Board of Education heard.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Check out this podcast with NC's Superintendent of the Year Dr. Rodney Peterson! #nced #ncpublicschools
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Episode 41 - A Conversation With Dr. Rodney Peterson, Superintendent Of Person County Schools, and 2026 NC Superintendent Of The Year - Public School Matters
This week, the NCASA Advocacy Team speaks with Dr. Rodney Peterson, Superintendent of Person County Schools and the 2026 Burroughs Wellcome Fund A. Craig Phillips North Carolina Superintendent of the ...
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November 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Still astonishing that our nation's leaders are going to court to stop funding food assistance when there is an emergency fund available for the expressed purpose of funding food assistance during a shutdown. The message couldn't be more obvious #nced #ncpublicschools
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November 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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"NC's public school students are making history," NC's students again exceeded the nat'l average in AP passing rates & increased the # of students taking the exams. Investments in teacher training, student support, and paying exam fees is generating excellent returns!
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More NC students taking and passing AP exams than ever, new data shows
North Carolina's results have come following a bump in AP enrollment and changes to how the College Board scores exams.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Courts are moving quickly to ensure SNAP benefits don't lag any more than they already have. Let's hope the administration follows the ruling to fully reinstate benefits today! #nced #ncpublicschools
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Trump administration ordered to restore full SNAP benefits by Friday
In failing to fully fund the food assistance program that covers 42 million low-income Americans, the judge said the government "failed to consider the harms" to people who rely on the benefits.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Lawmakers in Mississippi are pushing voucher expansion. This author understands the risks! The same is true for NC vouchers. #nced#ncpublicschools
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'School choice' benefits few, costs all
Whether you call it "school choice" or vouchers, privatization of education socializes all the costs of education but privatizes all the benefits.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM