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Goodbye, Summer! Hello, Property Tax Bill
N.C. governments collected $8.1 billion in property taxes last year. It’s the largest source of revenue for counties.
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Obama’s ISIS strategy
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A Good Start to a New School Year
Substantial teacher pay raises marked just one of the ways in which state legislators have focused on improving public education in North Carolina.
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Probing the Dip in Ed School Enrollment
Critics of the Republican-led N.C. General Assembly rely on speculation and wishful thinking when they tie recent policy changes to declining numbers of education majors.
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We thought the science was settled
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UNC System Makes Progress
By 2013-14, real General Fund spending per full-time-equivalent student in the UNC system had dropped by 20 percent, to $12,869.
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Want to borrow my lucky charm?
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Probing the Dip in Ed School Enrollment
Critics of the Republican-led N.C. General Assembly rely on speculation and wishful thinking when they tie recent policy changes to declining numbers of education majors.
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Happy Labor Day
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Party Labels Don’t Register
A fair reading of the data would be that a large share of unaffiliated voters in North Carolina — perhaps a third or more — are in practice Republican voters.
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Uneventful Ozone Story Could Change With Tightened Rules
Much of North Carolina could face noncompliance with federal standards in the future, even as the state's air quality continues to improve.
