As state lawmakers prepare for next week’s launch of the General Assembly’s short session, local education leaders prepared a list of concerns they would like to have addressed, including funding for school nurses and accountability for private schools receiving voucher funds.
Those issues were among more than a dozen brought to the table during Monday’s Pitt County Board of Education legislative luncheon that also included a discussion of the state’s school calendar requirements, teacher recruitment and funding for school personnel.
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