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VIA: SBOE.STATE.NC.US Need to know your polling location for voting in today’s primary elections? All you need is your address and county. FIND YOUR POLLING LOCATION

The University of Charlotte presented a great treat for students with hip hop concert.

Summer is right around the corner, and if you don’t have a plan now is the time to get one in place and head in that direction. That’s right it’s that special time of the year for summer camps! Your friends over at FoxyNC know how important it is for today’s youth to have fun and […]

RALEIGH – Wake County school board meetings have become standing room only events since new board members took office last December. School board member Anne McLaurin said it’s very different from when she started serving in 2007. “It’s a combination of a lot of changes at one time that were not really anticipated,” she said. […]

Via: WRAL.com Parents and students at Athens Drive High School Friday decried the name-calling in the debate over student assignment, saying that both sides in the emotional issue are overlooking the most important job of the school system. The back-and-forth between proponents of the Board of Education’s move to end busing for socio-economic diversity and […]

Raleigh, NC –Thousands are expected to meet at Shaw University on Saturday, February 27 and march to the State Legislature on Jones Street to protest the re-segregation of public schools, call for education instead of imprisonment, and demand good jobs and schools.  The 4th Annual HKonJ (Historic Thousands on Jones Street) March and Assembly has adopted the slogan […]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Ever applied to a job online only to have your résumé seemingly vanish into a void? “People have to think about a way to separate themselves from this pile of garbage that sits on someone’s desk,” said Sanford. He suggests finding out who is responsible for hiring at the company and […]

Via: WRAL.com Rev Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are scheduled to speak at North Carolina A&T Today on the topic of 21st-century activism and protest… Today’s visit is to recognizing the 50th anniversary of the 1960 sit-in at F.W. Woolworth… (Here’s a little History lesson) On February 1, 1960 4-black students from A&T sat down […]

Via: WRAL.com Today’s (1/25/2010) the last day for WAKE county parents to respond to an online survey about year-round schools and student assignment… The Board of Education sent letters to parents of students in all grades, asking them to respond to the survey… They also voted to end mandatory assignment to year-round schools beginning with […]

Via: WRAL.com Today The Wake County Board of Education will give final OK to end mandatory year-round school assignments. Earlier this month, board members voted to give parents more options on where their children attend school. The board’s new majority has indicated that they want to end the school system’s decade-old diversity policy by implementing […]