English immersion funds aim to aid NC students
A class action filed in Raleigh by North Carolina Legal Services seeks $20 million to expand or create English as a Second Language programs in counties with many non-English speakers. The suit says as many as 10,000 limited English students lack proper education and several systems lack such programs.
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Morganton
State Board of Education
North Carolina Legal Services
Raleigh
North Carolina
Cherokee casino pact could boost western North Carolina tourism
The Cherokee leaders and Governor Hunt reached a deal to open a 60000 square foot casino on the reservation with skill based video games and jackpots up to 25000 dollars. Officials say the compact could generate over 100 million dollars annually and create more than 1000 jobs while the tribe receives 70 percent of profits and a gambling corporation takes 30 percent. Some tribal members fear crime and moral decline despite projected economic gains.
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North Carolina
Ken Blankenship
Museum of the
Cherokee Indian
Jim
Hunt
Chero
Gerard Parker
McDonald’s
Parker
Mike
Virginia Sexton
Art ban in Ayden may shift to Greenville show
East Carolina University art students faced censorship when Ayden officials closed a reception due to nude paintings and vandalism claims. The Greenville Museum of Art tentatively plans a smaller mid September exhibit of the same ECU works, though space limits permit only about a quarter of the pieces.
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Ayden
Greenville
Greenville Museum of Art
East Carolina University
Eric Olsen
ECU
GMA
Barbour Strickland
Furniture makers condemn prison product preference directive
RALEIGH AP State agencies must favor North Carolina prison produced items if quality and delivery match private firms Correction Enterprises can be bypassed only if it cannot meet needs NC furniture industry leaders call the Aug memorandum ill conceived and claim the policy hurts private firms and inflames job prospects They label the directive a slap in the face and urge keeping purchases local to NC manufacturers
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Correction Enterprises
John Leaston
State Division of Purchase and Contract
Leaston
C.T. Morgan
North Carolina Association of Furniture Manufacturers
Morgan
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