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A North Carolina bill would require all public schools to create a three-year path to high school graduation, and new scholarships would encourage students to take that path.

NEW HANOVER COUNTY — A Cape Fear senator’s bill to expand North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship, allowing the government to pay for any family to attend…

All families in North Carolina would be eligible for the Opportunity Scholarship Program under a bill that moved through the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday.

All North Carolina families would be eligible to receive public money to send their children to private school regardless of income, under a bill that advanced in a Senate committee Wednesday. 

A new bill in the General Assembly removes the income cap for students receiving a state-funded scholarship to attend private school.

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.

A rising junior at one of Kentucky’s public or private high schools will win a $500 scholarship and a photo shoot at their school through the Promote Your School scholarship contest, sponsored by th

APD is looking for the suspect in a bus stop assault. Outdoor burning is banned in Buncombe County until this weekend. Millions of dollars are going to help flooding problems in Haywood County.

APD is looking for the suspect in a bus stop assault. Outdoor burning is banned in Buncombe County until this weekend. Millions of dollars are going to help flooding problems in Haywood County.