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A pair of matching voucher bills in the state House and Senate signal a shift in the way North Carolina pays for public education. Both are titled “Choose Your School, Choose Your Future,” and they’d remove income restrictions on receiving public money to pay private school tuition. Passage is virtually certain, given the bills’ powerful sponsors in a General Assembly with a veto-proof Republican majority.
Gaston County Schools officials say employees have faced short or missing paychecks, overpayments and delayed deposits to retirement accounts, with no clear end in sight. Problems arose with a new Oracle payroll system.
Most North Carolina school districts must wait until Aug. 29 to bring students back this year. But a few are starting sooner, with legal exemptions or in defiance of the state calendar law.