RALEIGH — A move to award scholarships to aspiring teachers would limit options for recipients. Senate Bill 252, “North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program,” would provide future science, technology, engineering, math, and special education teachers with forgivable college loans of up to $8,250 annually for four years. But there’s a caveat. The program requires that students select...
RALEIGH — A host of luminaries led by UNC system President Margaret Spellings used a Thursday press conference to announce a newly branded North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program. The proposal, which is set to be introduced next week in the General Assembly, would offer loans of as much as $8,250 to students who plan to teach...
For Democrats to reduce the Republicans’ dominance of the General Assembly, they’re going to have to pick up districts such as Senate 18 in Franklin and eastern Wake counties. The district features an incumbent Republican senator in Chad Barefoot, who faces locally known Democrat Gil Johnson. The two candidates make public education a priority, but...
A House committee on Tuesday approved a bill that would require the North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority to inform college applicants about the possible outcomes of a degree at any of the state’s public or private colleges and universities. Senate Bill 536, “Students Know Before You Go & Central Residency,” stipulates that the NCSEAA...
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