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Charlotte-based nonprofit believes women can fill labor shortage in trades
She Built This City offers programs that introduce girls and young women to the skilled trades beginning as early as middle school.
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Governor, lawmakers back career training expansion
The initiative was launched with a $9.25 million investment from the Siemens Foundation to train 25,000 North Carolinians for energy and infrastructure jobs during the program’s first decade.
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Stein focuses on public safety in push for $1.4B ‘critical needs budget’
With a focus on public safety, Democratic Gov. Josh Stein took the message of his $1.4 billion critical needs budget to Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte Thursday afternoon.
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NC community colleges to offer quicker path to elementary teacher licensure
easier for bachelor-degree holding college graduates to obtain a teacher license and become elementary-school educators.
Opinion
Some associate degrees have big payoffs
Suppose you are about to graduate from a North Carolina high school. Your grades are good but not great, and your primary goal after graduation is to get the schooling you need for a fulfilling career with good earnings potential. Should you head off to university or enroll in your local community college? For many...
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Is Central Piedmont Community College discriminating based on race?
Legal counsel for the Project on Fair Representation sent a letter to Central Piedmont Community College, because a fully funded fellowship program there is purportedly only open to “Black / African American” candidates. The April 18 letter warns the college “that you are likely violating the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Title VI and Title VII of the...
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No time: A common theme emerges at public hearing on redistricting
Not enough time. That was a consistent theme Monday, Oct. 25, as residents shared with lawmakers their thoughts on the proposed election maps, drawn after the results of the 2020 census. About 30 people spoke at the hearing in Raleigh, and the general consensus revolved around the lack of time to prepare for the hearings....
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Proposed redistricting maps filed ahead of Monday’s public hearings
The N.C. House Redistricting Committee submitted its proposed state district maps Friday, Oct. 22, after two months of public hearings and open meetings. They can be viewed on the legislative website along with the state Senate’s five draft maps for congressional districts, with one proposed map drawn of their own districts. The much-anticipated district map...
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Lawmakers schedule 13 redistricting hearings from the mountains to the coast
The legislative committees charged with drawing North Carolina’s new congressional and legislative election maps will take public comment at 13 different hearings during the next month. Participating lawmakers will head as far east as Elizabeth City and as far west as Cullowhee. The first hearing is scheduled Wednesday, Sept. 8, in Caldwell County. “By the...
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UNC-Chapel Hill includes two more community colleges in transfer program
UNC-Chapel Hill is expanding its transfer student program by adding partnerships with Guilford Technical and Central Piedmont community colleges. About 800 students transfer to UNC-Chapel Hill every year, with 44 percent transferring from community colleges. In 2006, UNC-Chapel Hill launched the Carolina Student Transfer Excellence Program to allow even more community college students to transfer...
Opinion
Build It, Even If They Won’t Come
Subsidizing stadium construction generally is a bad idea. Even worse is spending public money on sports facilities for teams that may never come to town.
Opinion
Counties Ask Voters to Raise Their Sales Taxes
Seven counties seek quarter-cent rate hikes on the November ballot. Most promise to use additional money for education.
