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State-Funded Center Serves Few

RALEIGH — The North Carolina Center for Applied Textile Technology, a state-owned higher-education institution that since 1996 has received more than $1.2 million annually in aid from the state, was audited recently for the first time. Carolina Journal obtained copies of the center’s class rosters for school year 2002-03, which showed a large number of courses and few students. Some students said they weren’t in classes that the center claimed they attended. One was an elderly woman from Belmont who said she was a patient in a hospital at the time.

Paul Chesser

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