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Durham public schools are making small improvements in student proficiency, but when compared to its neighboring counties, Durham is identified as low performing. This designation gives the school district a negative connotation, and says nothing about the actual teaching and learning that is occurring. The district will implement a new improvement-monitoring plan to continue closing the achievement gap.
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The seventh year of the Hopscotch Music Festival begins in early September in downtown Raleigh. The festival’s biggest strength is its diversity of music, yet, the lineup still lacks representation of hip hop and rap artists.
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The first headliner announced for this year's Hopscotch music festival was Lavender Country, a radical project dating back to the early seventies that's widely recognized as the first-ever openly gay country band. Other musicians include folk artist Joan Shelley and blues rock artist Adia Victoria.
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The Hopscotch Design Festival brings together designers such as urban planners, computer engineers, or start-up entrepreneurs. This year’s keynote speaker is Dan Heath, a senior fellow at Duke's Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship. He’ll be speaking about designing moments and how to reverse-engineer memorable experiences of our lives.
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The shooting of Keith Lamont Scott on September 20, 2016 by police officers in Charlotte prompted protesting in the city. Protesters marched and blocked Interstate 277 before being cleared from the road by police officers in riot gear using pepper spray. Community members were distressed at the police’s conclusion that the shooting and other incidents across the state and country involving violence toward individuals of color were justified. Community members are concerned with policing practices and believe that the steps being made to improve relations between police and the community are insufficient.
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27328
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Over the past 15 years there has been a renewed interest in traditional music. The Coen brothers’ film, O Brother Where Art Thou? (2001), and the film’s soundtrack are credited with this rise in popularity. The band from the film, The Soggy Bottom Boys, headlined the fourth meeting of the International Bluegrass Music Association’s festival in Raleigh, NC. The festival has seen an increase in turnout and a more diverse audience as a result of the film’s lasting impact and modern folk-inspired acts like the Avett Brothers.
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Emil Kang and the Carolina Performing Arts are producing Sacred/Secular: A Sufi Journey. This year-long festival highlights the differences in the Islamic faith and explores the experience of living with a Muslim identity in the modern world. Performances include concerts, staged readings, plays, dance, and other media formats throughout the Triangle Area starting Friday September 29th through April 12th.
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Durham County has experienced a higher turnover rate for teachers than the state over the last 5 years. 19.2 percent of teachers left after the 2015-16 school year versus 14.2 percent of teachers across the state. This turnover rate is the tenth-highest in the state and higher than Durham’s surrounding school districts and counties. While half of teachers leaving the county leave teaching altogether, half are leaving for other reasons. It is argued that one of the biggest reasons is teacher pay. Durham offers lower supplements than its neighbors which may be a significant contributor to this trend.
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Vicki Ismail, a Raleigh restauranteur hopes to empower the disadvantaged with Carroll’s Kitchen. The new nonprofit will provide jobs and skills to women in need, and the people behind it hope to spark a movement.
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After a federal court struck down North Carolina’s voter identification law, state Republicans have been trying to circumvent the decision by limiting early voting as much as possible. Under state law, county election plans need unanimous approval in order to be final.
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Orange and other North Carolina counties are increasingly debating who’s a farmer, and who deserves the privileges afforded to farmers. Some farms occasionally serve as wedding or party venues. Opposition to such farms claim they commodify the farming community and threaten to destroy its centuries-old way of life.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 37, Sept 2016,
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This year a new daylong festival, Varipop, will take place in the courtyard of SPECTRE Arts in Durham. The festival will feature local jazz musicians and artists, aiming for more of a community block party rather than a corporate operation.
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In October, Reframing Food will be on exhibit at the Carrack Modern Art in Durham. The exhibit features photography by members of the Food Youth Initiative, a network of four groups across North Carolina working toward food justice in their communities. Their work intimately portrays a powerful personal perspective uncommon in the mainstream food world.
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House Bill 2, the controversial anti-LGBTQ law, has cost North Carolina millions of dollars. Corporations and event organizers have decided to pull out of the state in protest, culminating in announcements last week that the NCAA and the ACC were moving their championship games out of North Carolina.
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Evelyn Martinez moved to North Carolina nine years ago as a teenage boy, leaving her parents behind in rural Oaxaca, Mexico, after attempting suicide. She and other transgender Latinos are part of the Durham non-profit El Centro Hispano to help bring light to a new Southern community that has been hidden from view.
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