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Inside a classroom at the Ashe Early Learning Center, a group of small children sit in a circle with their teacher to learn about the alphabet, but how they go about learning their letters is what makes this lesson unique — and fun. These children have Seedlings, small touchpads loaded with learning games. Distributing the […]
Communities across North Carolina have been innovating solutions to market failures in early care and education, but the system remains in crisis
JEFFERSON â A special meeting was held on Tuesday, Dec. 15 between members of the Ashe County Board of Education, Ashe County Board of Commissioners and architect Larry Greene. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the proposed plans for the new middle school. Arrangements for this meeting were made following the BOE meeting on Dec. 7, where several members of the board expressed an interest in holding such a meeting in an effort to be âon the same page.â To comply with the state regulations governing the number of persons allowed to gather indoors due to COVID-19, the meet...
Legal marijuana in North Carolina? Task force recommends state look to legalizing the drug, follow others' leads Staff Report editor@mountaintimes.com Dec 16, 2020 HIGH COUNTRY â While much of the focus was on the U.S. presidential race in the 2020 General Election, voters in five states also approved the legalization of marijuana, bringing the total to 36 states that have legalized it for medical use, if not recreational. Many states have gone through a step-by-step process toward legalization, starting with medicinal use and going up to regulated legalization. However, South Dakota wen...
HIGH COUNTRY â While much of the focus was on the U.S. presidential race in the 2020 General Elections, voters in five states also approved the legalization of marijuana, bringing the total to 36 states that have legalized it for medical use, if not recreational. However, the discussion of legalization is not stopping at the state level. On Dec. 4, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the MORE Act with a 228-158 vote. A large part of the MORE Act is the focus on how non-white Americans have been disproportionally affected by marijuana laws. The North Carolina Task Force for Racial ...