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Civitas launches Educations Savings Account Initiative – #NCed #ESA

Posted on January 28, 2016 by A.P. Dillon

The Civitas Institute has launched a new website to raise awareness about Education Savings Accounts or ESA’s.

Civitas has held a few Townhall’s already on ESA’s in the Triangle area. I myself attended one just last week in Apex. The next one is being held in Greensboro on February 4th. Parents wishing to attend can get more information on the Greensboro event here.

Here’s the press release from Civitas on the launch of ESA4NCKIDS.org:

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Operations Director of Equality NC: “There are tons of trans students.”

Posted on January 28, 2016 by A.P. Dillon

The Wake County School Board worked over their hiring policies this past week.

What they tweaked was adding a ban on discriminating based on sexual orientation. The Wake Board didn’t add transgender and well, transgender defenders are freaking out.

ABC11 reported on the reaction, emphasis added:

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SHUT UP! They Explained At UNC BOG Meeting

Posted on January 28, 2016 by A.P. Dillon

Well, so much for civil discourse.

CHAPEL HILL — Protests turned violent during a Tuesday morning meeting of the UNC Board of Governors as students and faculty gathered once again to call for the removal of UNC president-elect Margaret Spellings, former secretary of education in the George W. Bush administration.

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Why Is Bloomberg Money In The NC Superintendent Race?

Posted on January 27, 2016 by A.P. Dillon

Folks might not realize it, but the NC Superintendent position is up for grabs this election year.

Dr. Atkinson has filed to run again, but there are four other people running as well. This is one of the most crowded Superintendent races in a while, with two Democrats and three Republicans running.

Those running against Atkinson are J. Wesley Sills (R), Henry Pankey (D), Dr. Rosemary Stein (R) and Mark Johnson (R).

One of them is getting money from Mike Bloomberg and Teach for America’s political offshoot organization.
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NC-16’s Rep. Millis Endorses Covil for NC-20 Seat

Posted on January 26, 2016 by A.P. Dillon

Dispatches from the NCGA House races…

In my inbox just a little while ago popped this endorsement from Rep. Millis in District 16. for Tammy Covil for NC-20. He’s endorsed Tammy Covil over the other challengers in the NC-20 race.

The press release is as follows:

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Revolving Door Between WCPSS and WakeEd Partnership Spins Again

Posted on January 26, 2016 by A.P. Dillon

Seems we have a little bit of a revolving door between Wake County Schools and WakeEd Partnership …

See who is spinning through it now, both past and present. Continue reading →

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