RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina lawsuit that attempts to block a law permitting four Charlotte-area municipalities to operate their own charter schools can't go forward, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. Two years ago, the North Carolina ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina judge on Tuesday cut the amount of money needed to comply through the middle of next year with a step-by-step plan to address state educational inequities. But he declined to leave in place the ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — The North Carolina Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to give a judge another week to work through the latest step in a long-running legal fight over public education spending. The court's justices granted Special Superior Court Judge Michael ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — Plaintiffs in long-running North Carolina school funding litigation have asked the state's highest court to decide whether a trial judge's directive to send $1.75 billion from government coffers to state agencies to address inequities is lawful. Lawyers ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — Plaintiffs in long-running North Carolina school funding litigation have asked the state's highest court to decide whether a trial judge's directive to send $1.75 billion from government coffers to state agencies to address inequities is lawful. Lawyers ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — Approaching a potential constitutional confrontation, Democratic legislators and some lawyers say there's little choice left but for a North Carolina judge this week to take the extraordinary step of ordering $1.7 billion be spent on addressing inequities ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — AmeriCorps has announced settlements with two North Carolina universities and a service agency which requires a payment of more than $800,000 to the U.S. to resolved allegations of false claims for grant money, a federal prosecutor says. ...

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  The North Carolina Court of Appeals has put the brakes on a lawsuit that was filed against a school district on behalf of a vulnerable special needs student who was sexually assaulted on an outsourced vehicle that transported her to school.  The court affirmed on Sept. 7 the dismissal of the student’s claims ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina can't wait any longer on costly improvements to public education in light of court rulings that declare the state hasn't met constitutional obligations, Democratic lawmakers and education advocates said Monday. Sponsors of a House measure ...

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RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina lawmakers on Thursday unanimously approved a coronavirus relief bill that sends federal money approved by Congress in December to schools for reopening, public health officials distributing the vaccine and residents struggling to pay their rent. ...

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