For the latest in our series Carolina Curious, listener and newly-minted teacher Madelyn Rindal wants to know:
“How has the North Carolina Public School System changed in the last decade and how does it compare to our neighboring states?”
This is one of those questions where you don't know where to begin. In the last ten years, there has been so much change – new technology, higher nutrition standards for school lunches, and increased security, just to name a few.
But when we talked to educators, one theme up came over and over again: funding. WFDD's Keri Brown reports on how money (or the lack thereof) has shaped the state's public schools in the last ten years.
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