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Cooper Nominates NC Education Board Leaders To Stay On Panel
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper nominated on Thursday the current chairman and vice chairman of the State Board of Education to serve eight additional years on the panel.
Eric Davis, the chairman since 2018, and Vice Chairman Alan Duncan were among four people that the governor asked the General Assembly to confirm for the board.
Davis was previously the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board chairman. Duncan, who held a similar position on the Guilford County board, joined the state board in 2018.
Cooper also nominated Melody Chalmers McClain of Fayetteville and Ronald Hargrave of Advance. McCain is the assistant superintendent of the Cumberland County Schools while Hargrave was the Scotland County Schools superintendent, Cooper’s news release said.
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 Oxendine, a Pat McCrory appointee who has represented the Sandhills or 4th educational district since 2013. Hargrave would fill an at-large vacancy.
Here are brief bios shared Thursday in a press release from Cooper’s office:
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