Gov. Roy Cooper
Citing recent studies that show schools can reopen for in-person instruction if they follow safety protocols, Gov. Roy Cooper and state education leaders on Tuesday said it’s time for students to return to schools for in-person instruction.
“Research done right here in North Carolina tells us that in-person learning is working and that students can be in classrooms safely with the right safety protocols in place,” Cooper said.
The governor is referring to the much-discussed ABC Science Collaborative study that looked at 11 North Carolina school districts during the first two months of school and found no cases of student-to-adult transmissions. Researchers from Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill make up the Science Collaborative.
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Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a resident of Greensboro, home of the Feb. 1, 1960, Woolworth sit-ins, wants you to know that racism no longer exists.
As Black History Month was only days away, Robinson, a Black man, felt moved to make that decree at a state Board of Education meeting last week.
âThe system of government that we have in this nation is not systematically racist. In fact, it is not racist at all,â Robinson said of proposed new standards for social studies instruction in public schools that would include discussion of some chapters of Americanâs past and present that have routinely been underrepresented.
North Carolina's leaders Tuesday issued a bipartisan call for all local school districts to open in-person classes. "It's time to get our children back
How do you teach America s sins? NC board still at odds over social studies standards T. Keung Hui, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Feb. 3 North Carolina education leaders are struggling with how to balance teaching students about both the nation s historical sins and its accomplishments.
The State Board of Education will vote Thursday on new K-12 social studies standards that include language such as having teachers discuss racism, discrimination and the perspectives of marginalized groups. Republican board members have complained that the standards are unbalanced, while some Democrats don t think they go far enough.
In an effort to bridge the divide, GOP State Superintendent Catherine Truitt presented Wednesday a new preamble to the standards that say they must discuss hard truths such as Native American oppression, anti-Catholicism and Jim Crow. But she said the standards must also teach how the U.S. Constitution created the world s first organized dem