As North Carolina families prepare for a new school year, our school communities are thinking about the many questions students will surely have about the August 12 white supremacist rampage in Charlottesville, VA. We’ve prepared a list of resources for teachers who may be called upon to answer some of those questions.
NC General Assembly conference committee members released their final plan for the biennium shortly before midnight on Monday, June 19. Senate leaders held votes on the 983-page plan, consisting of a bill and money report, the next day, and the measure passed on Thursday. Although Gov. Cooper vetoed it, that was overridden on June 28, 2017.
Now that the House and the Senate have passed their budgets, the differences between the two will be reconciled by a conference committee, with members from both chambers.
The House released a partial Education budget for 2017-2019 on Thursday, May 25th at an 8:30 AM committee meeting. Leadership allowed members to add amendments at the meeting though they had not received the budget in advance. The committee passed the report in a party line vote at approximately 2:45 PM.
