Despite the fact that North Carolina already ranks near the bottom nationally in the generosity of its retiree health plan—better only than Georgia—Senate ...
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Archives by: Lindsay Wagner
Lindsay Wagner
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Lindsay Wagner, former Education Reporter for N.C. Policy Watch. Wagner now works as a Senior Writer and Researcher at the NC Public School Forum. She has also worked for the American Federation of Teachers in Washington, D.C., as a writer and researcher focusing on higher education issues and for the National Education Association, the U.S. Department of State's Fulbright program and the Brookings Institution and an Education Specialist at the A.J. Fletcher Foundation.
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Administration and oversight for public charter schools has been handled by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction for years — but Senator ...
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Around the country, states and cities are trying a new way to boost success rates at low-performing schools. New efforts labeled ‘recovery school ...
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Corey Davis, a veteran living in Greensboro back in 2013, wanted to open his own small company and figured a degree in business ...
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Tamarah Hefner has worked for Catawba County schools for 26 years, driving elementary, middle and high school students to school at dawn and ...
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Buried deep in the Senate budget proposal that lawmakers passed last week is a provision that would eliminate state-paid health retirement benefits for ...
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Editor’s note: This story is cross-posted from the Progressive Pulse, where it originally appeared. A few short lines in the 2015-17 Senate budget would ...
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Senate proposes cutting more than 8,500* teacher assistant positions Senate leaders unveiled portions of a 2015-17 budget proposal Monday that gives teachers an ...
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National reports note wide resource disparities Two national reports released this week find that North Carolina is failing to adequately fund its public ...
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Poor track records, allegations and charges of academic fraud linked to companies hoping to educate North Carolina’s school children The State Board of ...
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