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January 24, 2021

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Zoom glitches, grinding US schools to a halt

August 25, 2020 The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Teachers and parents got a brief glimpse of a new kind of pandemic-era nightmare Monday when Zoom — the video-conferencing service that powers everything from distance learning to business meetings to casual, […]

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‘Impossible’: School boards are at heart of reopening debate

August 15, 2020 Jeffrey Collins, Associated Press

ROCK HILL, S.C. — Helena Miller listened to teachers, terrified to reenter classrooms, and parents, exhausted from trying to make virtual learning work at home. She heard from school officials who spent hundreds of hours […]

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Schools opening remotely are leaving special needs behind

August 5, 2020 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — With Gov. Roy Cooper’s school reopening announcement allowing districts to reopen under Plan C, full remote learning, parents who have children with special needs say they are being left behind. Two families agreed […]

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GINGRICH: Cheating the children or empowering the parents

July 29, 2020 Newt Gingrich

The United States is gradually grinding to an educational collapse as the giant bureaucracies and extraordinarily powerful teachers’ unions ignore children and education in pursuit of power. Many of the wealthiest school systems have decided […]

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Pence says schools reopenings ‘best thing for our kids’

July 24, 2020 The Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — Vice President Mike Pence kept up the Trump administration’s push for reopening schools and universities, insisting Friday that it can be done safely even amid public worries about the health risks posed by […]

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NCAE, lawmakers react to NC school reopening plans

July 14, 2020 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — The N.C. Association of Educators (NCAE) and state lawmakers reacted differently to Gov. Roy Cooper’s school reopening announcement on Tuesday. “Educators want to be back in school buildings. We miss and value the […]

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All North Carolina public schools to close for two weeks

March 14, 2020 A.P Dillon and Matt Mercer, NSJ

RALEIGH – All North Carolina public schools will close beginning Monday, March 16th for a minimum of two weeks. The Department of Public Instruction is recommending using Monday as an optional teacher workday to allow […]

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North Carolina district considers school lunch policy change

November 13, 2019 The Associated Press

GREENSBORO — A North Carolina school system is considering a policy change that would prevent high school students from being denied a meal because they can’t afford it. The Greensboro News & Record reported Sunday […]

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Bill retooling North Carolina school-takeover path now law

November 13, 2019 The Associated Press

RALEIGH — Legislation that retools the process by which low-performing North Carolina public schools can be taken over by outside operators has become law. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper provided neither his signature nor veto stamp […]

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Legislators agree to do away with more standardized testing

August 26, 2019 admin

RALEIGH — North Carolina legislators have reached a compromise on doing away with more standardized testing in public schools. The House and Senate hammered out an agreement between competing bills and scheduled final votes on […]

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