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Bipartisanship, like pollen, has been in the air in Raleigh lately. Both will be gone soon. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper signed the “Excellent Public Schools Act of 2021” championed by Phil Berger, the Republican Senate president pro-tem. Democrats and Republicans voted overwhelmingly for the bill; it passed the Senate 48-0 and the House 113-5. But when he signed the law, Governor Cooper said: “Learning to read early in life is critical for our children and this legislation will he...

Gov. Roy Cooper Gov. Roy Cooper has nominated Eric Davis, the State Board of Education chairman and Alan Duncan, the board’s vice chairman, for new eight-year terms. Cooper also nominated Melody Chalmers McClain, a Cumberland County Schools assistant superintendent and Ronald Hargrave, former superintendent of Scotland County Schools to serve on the board that oversees North Carolina’s K-12 public schools. The General Assembly must confirm the nominations. McClain would replace Olivia ...