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NC wins a piece of the prize

From the NC Alliance:

The NC Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a proponent of choice and competition in K-12 education, is happy to hear of our state’s selection to receive federal dollars for all our schools. With NC’s looming deficit and knowing our state’s taxpayers have to pay the federal taxes to fund Race to the Top spending, naturally we want our share of the $4.35 [...]

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Dickerson Employee Benefits

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Find your State Board member and tell them that you want the charter cap removed!

  District State School Board  members are here  and your district is below.

First District:
Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell, Washington

Second District:
Brunswick, Carteret, Craven, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, New Hanover, Onslow, Pamlico, Pender, Sampson, Wayne

Third District:
Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin, Granville, Halifax, Johnston, Nash, Northampton, Vance, Wake, Warren, Wilson

Fourth District:
Bladen, Columbus, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Robeson, Scotland

Fifth [...]

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News from Academy of Moore County…good news

Academy of Moore County comes to agreement with the State Board. Read here…

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Paul, Gail, and Eddie at Sheraton

Paul, Gail, and Eddie at Sheraton

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Community School of Davidson News

That’s why Carson, 12, joined her sixth-grade classmates at Community School of Davidson to transform its middle school wing into a Holocaust museum that’s open to the public from 4 to 8 p.m. today only.

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4th Grade Field Trip

New Dimensions Charter School

4th Grade Field Trip

On March 31st the 4th grade class departed for their annual field trip to the Sound to Sea Environmental Program on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.  The students learned about the different habitats of the coastal area and the marine ecosystem.  They enjoyed dissecting and studying the anatomy of a squid.  The class learned how to protect [...]

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Pine Lake Preparatory’s robotics team, Team SPORK winners!

Ingersoll Rand & Pine Lake Preparatory’s Award Winning Team to Compete in Robotics World Championship

April 11, 2010 

Pine Lake Preparatory’s Upper School robotics team, Team SPORK, sponsored by Ingersoll Rand of Davidson, NC, won the Rookie All-Star and the Best Website Awards at the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) NC Regional Tournament held on April 2-3, 2010 in the Dorton Arena in Raleigh.  The Rookie All-Star is [...]

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SBE Chairman: “can’t support lifting charter cap”

He (Harrison) can’t support lifting the cap “when we get charter schools that are more about employing relatives than educating kids,” he said.

“I need to be quiet now,” he said, as other board members laughed.

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NC Teaching Fellows Awards

Congratulations to Zackary Kendall Joyner of Queens Grant Community Charter for being a recipient of this years awards!

Who else from charters won?

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