David Bass
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NC House education chair: School funding model is ‘broken’ (opens the original)
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School finance officers told a state commission on Sept. 28 that they routinely assign employees to whichever budget the state will pay for, and that even then they send unspent teacher money back to Raleigh. The House’s top K-12 lawmaker, one of the legislators who serve on the commission in a non-voting role, said that proves the funding model is broken. North Carolina funds teachers, principals, and most other licensed school staff by the position, not the dollar, according to the Department
NC education commission OKs literacy plan, 2028 pay target (opens the original)
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A state commission appointed by Gov. Josh Stein and Republican legislative leaders voted unanimously Sept. 28 to adopt its first set of recommendations on early reading and the teacher pipeline, after members had sent an earlier draft back to staff on Aug. 31 saying it was too general to act on. The plan, created by the Blue Ribbon Commission on Public Education, calls for the state to adopt and fund up to three K-3 reading curricula by May 2028. Every public school unit in the state would be ma
DEI prohibitions for community colleges take effect Thursday (opens the original)
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Rules barring diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices at North Carolina’s 58 community colleges take effect Thursday, along with a prohibition on colleges endorsing “divisive concepts.” The State Board of Community Colleges adopted the rules Sept. 18. The rules put the state’s DEI ban into the code governing all 58 colleges, which enroll more than 600,000 students a year, and require each college to certify its compliance in writing every year. The first certifications were due Sept. 1. T
NC task force leans toward new way of measuring school growth (opens the original)
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For more than a decade, a North Carolina school’s growth score — a measure of whether students made more or less progress than expected — has been calculated using statewide results from the same year. The task force rewriting the state’s school grading system now wants to change that. At its Sept. 21 meeting at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’s (DPI) offices in Raleigh, the State Board of Education Task Force on Accountability for Public Schools favored measuring each studen
Duke under federal investigation over foreign funding disclosures (opens the original)
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The US Department of Education and the US Department of State have opened an investigation into how Duke University reports its foreign gifts and contracts. Federal officials say Duke’s disclosures were late and incomplete. In at least one case, they say, the university labeled a foreign government partner as a private one. The investigation was opened Sept. 15 and announced the next day. The University of North Dakota (UND) is under a separate investigation announced at the same time. Under Sec
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