Corporations considering a headquarters move to Charlotte or the Triangle would be offered an additional incentive â potentially worth millions of dollars â to spread the economic benefits to less vibrant areas of the state under a bill that cleared the N.C. Senate last week.
Republican-sponsored Senate Bill 493 modifies the stateâs Job Development Investment Grant program â the primary economic-recruitment tool for corporations being recruited by other states.
The co-primary sponsors include Sens. David Craven Jr. of Randolph County and Vickie Sawyer of Yadkin County. The Senate voted 49-0 for the bill.
An economic reality for much of this century â oftentimes to the frustration of Triad civic and elected officials â has been that most corporations contemplating a headquarters move into North Carolina look only at the stateâs two primary economic engines in Wake and Mecklenburg counties.
By May, Nia Raines will have earned two.
The 18-year-old will soon graduate from Cumberland Polytechnic High School. She already has one degree under her belt in December she completed work for her associate’s degree from Fayetteville Technical Community College. Graduation ceremonies for both schools are scheduled for next month.
Nia’s high school is located on the FTCC campus, and students there earn credits toward college. But she went the extra mile, taking summer courses, to earn her degree in a two-year program. She was just 17 at the time.
“I took a lot of summer classes to help me with that, to get me on the fast track,” says Nia, who has maintained a 3.8 GPA in high school. “It just accumulated. I worked very hard.”
North Carolina ‘driving’ toward more diverse corps of educators Wednesday, April 28, 2021
North Carolina’s population is becoming more racially and ethnically diverse every day, but according to a report issued by Gov. Roy Cooper’s DRIVE Task Force, its educators don’t nearly reflect that diversity.
The DRIVE report , which stands for “Developing a Representative and Inclusive Vision for Education,” was issued this past Jan. 1 after Cooper called for a task force that was eventually convened in May 2020.
The report shows that for the 2018-19 school year, more than 50 percent of students in NC schools were of a racially or ethnically distinct background, while only about 20 percent of educators were.
Worth your time today: An online discussion about the need to increase federal and state support for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) featuring North Carolina Congresswoman Alma Adams.
The 3 p.m. webinar, organized by the Hunt Institute, will also feature Dr. Michael Lomax, President and CEO of United Negro College Fund, and Virginia State Senator Jennifer McClellan. The discussion will focus on the importance of HBCUs and the inequities in funding they face at the state and federal level. Today’s discussion is the the first of a two-part collaboration between the institute’s Governing Principals and Race & Education series. The second part, which will examine the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on HBCUs, will be on July 20.
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