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7346
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How do schools get their names? Crissman provides a number of possibilities for names, including a person (Booker T. Washington Elementary); a place (Beech Mountain Elementary); a direction (Northwest High School); and a lofty idea (First Flight Elementary). Every North Carolina school system has a policy for naming its schools.
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4839
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Suicide is the third leading cause of death among North Carolina's young adults. Gamble discusses the need for schools to have a crisis management policy dealing with student suicides and considers steps schools might take toward addressing the issue, like having safe school plans. Also included is a partial bibliography on student suicide and web sites.
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17072
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Each school year, more than 1.3 million students--90 percent of all public school-aged children in the state--are education in more than 2200 traditional and charter public schools in North Carolina. North Carolina's public schools lead the nation in progress--a fact confirmed by many studies and rankings.
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5197
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The original purpose of the federal Equal Access Act was \"to ensure that student-initiated religious groups could use public secondary schools during noninstructional time on the same basis as other student groups.\" The act also protects other student groups who wish to discuss a wide range of topics, including homosexuality. Spiggle discusses the Equal Access Act, how it functions in protecting student- initiated groups, and what school officials must consider in determining whether or not their school is covered by the act.
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31087
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In a crisis confronting North Carolina higher learning, colleges in the state hope that the public and the 1963 General Assembly will be alerted to support large additional appropriations for expanding existing and new public institutions. Private institutions in the state also face the loss of voluntary contributions while facing a forced merger with governmental regulations.
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35916
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The Moral Majority was a conservative Christian PAC with a mission to remove believed “anti-God, anti-family” materials from NC public schools and school libraries. Such an agenda concerned librarians and educators about the consequences of purging shelves and banning books. Concerning other library-related issues related to access, included was how inflation and rising prices of books and periodicals curtailed the building of collections.
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2553
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Opponents of school choice options argue that they violate the constitutional separation of church and state and the N.C. Constitution's public purpose clause, and would divert funds from public schools.
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North Carolina Insight
(NoCar JK 4101 N3x), Vol. 16 Issue 2, Sept 1995,
p42-50, il, por, f
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7826
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McColl's article uses a question-and-answer format to help school personnel find information to address domestic violence that affects students and the school community. School personnel will deal with domestic violence at some point in their careers, and there is a growing awareness that this type of violence has a detrimental effect on children exposed to it. Among the questions posed are \"How does domestic violence affect schools?\", \"What are Domestic Violence Protective Orders?\", and \"How does domestic violence affect a school's duty to report child abuse or neglect?\".
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2136
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The state is working to bring public schools to a level comparable with the university system and is focusing on such areas as dropouts, reducing class size, capital outlays, improved communication skills, and math.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 15 Issue 2, Feb 1995,
p63-65, il
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4748
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Michael Ward, North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction, issues to local school boards five challenges to meet that are essential for public school success. They are providing safe schools; requiring accountability and the ABCs; meeting standards for promotion of students; closing the academic gap between white and minority students; and recruiting quality teachers.
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35913
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This public high school had established an illustrious alumnus in its two decades, including Nobel Prize winners, a secretary of defense. This could be explained in the collegiate atmosphere and coursework offered to the one in six New York residents accepted every year.
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10866
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Millonzi describes the state's Medicaid program and explains program funding before the General Assembly passed funding reform legislation. The legislation's financial impact on local school administrative units and county governments is discussed.
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11544
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In this continuing series of biographical sketches of members of the state legislature, Lucas discusses Carl LeRoy Bailey, State Senator from Washington County. Bailey supported Senator Angus MacLean, who was largely responsible for legislation in the 1933 General Assembly that allowed the state take over the operation of the public school system.
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9188
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Too many students in the state are dropping out of school, placing North Carolina among the lowest states in that category. Stallings' discussion of the dropout problem includes how North Carolina tracks and measures dropout rates; which students drop out and why; and what the state and local school districts are doing to reduce the dropout rate. The article concludes with six recommendations for improving the state's dropout problem.
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North Carolina Insight
(NoCar JK 4101 N3x), Vol. 22 Issue 2-3, May 2007,
p72-137, il, f
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4382
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In 1995-96, the number of home-schooled children in North Carolina exceeded 13,000. Eventually a point is reached where parents of these children cannot instruct in advanced courses, such as chemistry and physics, and request local school systems to allow their children to attend part-time. Schools are not required to do this, either by state or federal law. North Carolina law does not prohibit this, allowing schools systems to decide requests on an individual basis.
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