North Carolina Rep. David Rouzer, R-07, introduced a bill last week in the US House to eliminate the Department of Education, a move that Republican leaders have floated for years amid ongoing criticism of the federal government's influence in the public school systems.
The company is giving 100 grants worth $20,000 each to businesses in disaster-declared communities to meet urgent needs like payroll, rent, or replacing equipment or tools.
A collection of black student interest groups at North Carolina State University has graded the university on the subjects of enrollment and graduation of black students and recruitment of black faculty. The African-American Student Advisory Council, not surprisingly, gave the university mostly failing grades. In essence, the groups gave N.C. State low marks because the university doesn't discriminate enough in the way they want it to.
