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Thursday, 28 March 2013 16:07 |
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RALEIGH, (AP) — North Carolina legislators have named two business executives to the governing panel over the state's 58 community colleges.
The House and Senate voted separately Thursday to elect Edward Raye of Marshville and Will Collins or Raleigh to the State Board of Community Colleges. Each term is for six years.
Collins is a vice president for a Durham-based automotive parts maker and has served on community college foundation boards. He received more votes than Ken Dull of Wrightsville Beach in the House election.
Raye was the only Senate candidate nominated. He is CEO of a commercial piping company and also owns a farm. He's a former trustee board chairman of South Piedmont Community College.
The General Assembly elects eight of the state board's 21 members. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 28 March 2013 16:08 |
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Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:58 |
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RALEIGH, (AP) — North Carolina House members say a public school safety bill should give parents and teachers peace of mind that legislators are doing whatever is necessary to protect students and school personnel following the Connecticut school shootings.
Legislators of both parties endorsed a measure Thursday that would provide $15 million to local governments to hire more school resource officers, psychologists and guidance counselors. There's also $2 million in grants to help put panic alarms in every classroom in the state by July 2015.
The bill also would require schools to hold crisis exercises annually. School districts would conduct the exercises every two years.
Gov. Pat McCrory announced last week the revival and retooling of a school safety center in the Department of Public Safety.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:59 |
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Wednesday, 27 March 2013 13:17 |
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RALEIGH, (AP) — North Carolina legislators are considering greater separation between taxpayer-funded charter schools and the local or state school boards which run the rest of the state's 2,500 public schools.
A state Senate committee on Wednesday discussed legislation that would make charter schools more aggressive competitors for students and the taxpayer money that follows them.
A new charter school board separate from the state Board of Education would decide things like the financial accountability standards the schools must follow.
The measure would cancel the current requirement that at least half a charter school's teachers be certified. Charter school directors could decide whether to check job applicants for any criminal history. Local school boards would be required to lease available buildings or land to a charter school for $1 a year. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 March 2013 13:18 |
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Monday, 25 March 2013 16:09 |
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RALEIGH, (AP) — The attorney for a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student who faces possible expulsion after saying publicly she's a rape victim says his client has filed a federal complaint against the school for retaliation.
Attorney Clay Turner says in a letter that Landen Gambill filed the complaint Monday with the Department of Education. In the letter, Turner asks Chancellor Holden Thorp to dismiss charges against Gambill.
Gambill is accused of violating the honor code by creating an intimidating environment for the man who says raped her, although she hasn't named him. A campus board earlier cleared him of the sexual assault charge and but found him guilty of harassing her. He faces no criminal charges.
Her complaint is one of three filed with DOE against the university this year about sexual assault.
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