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Gov. Roy Cooper touts an aggressive spending plan that Senate Leader Phil Berger doesn't like. Virginia Foxx and Kathy Manning go at it on educational issues. Ashton Clemmons is at top of House Democrats.
A new lawsuit accuses North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services of failing to protect children with disabilities in the state foster care system, while spending millions a year to segregate them in psychiatric facilities.
Disability Rights North Carolina and the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP have joined forces to help children of color with disabilities in the state's foster care program get more community- and home-based treatment instead of being "warehoused" in locked psychiatric facilities that can be dangerous.
Local officials removed the school's namesake, a leader of the deadly 1898 coup, as protests over George Floyd's murder rippled across the country.