Education

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A tweet from the president reads: "We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great."

They eat up administrators' time, many students think they discriminate against girls and aren't there much more important things to worry about?

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Guilford County students will be the first in the South to benefit from the Say Yes to Education campaign.

Union leaders have voted to suspend their strike, which began last week. The full membership will vote on the deal on Sunday. The dispute has kept 53,000 students from starting their school year.

A critic of the move, which is not yet final, said his colleagues in the Legislature had decided to "rob children" to help cover a budget deficit instead of finding the money elsewhere.