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It’s Thursday, May 8.
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It’s budget season, and for the Wake County school board, that means some difficult math.
At Tuesday night’s school board meeting, we learned that inflation plus population growth plus deferred maintenance plus inadequate state funding plus federal cuts to public education equals … a schools budget that no one is totally satisfied with. Even the people who voted to pass it.
“I am agreeing to this budget proposal, but I do not support it,” board member Lynn Edmonds said following the 6-3 vote.
The budget contains about $20 million in cuts to teacher salary supplements and school support staff. There are no cuts to classroom teacher positions, but teachers, parents, and students told the school board that any reductions at all will have a ripple effect into classrooms.
Read more below and have a good Thursday.
—Chloe
Durham
ABC11 reports on the next phase for Durham’s N.C. Mutual.
Wake
New testing found PFAS, or so-called forever chemicals, in landfills around the state, including in Wake County, WRAL reports.
Orange
Via WCHL: The ACC will return to an 18-game season, with UNC playing Duke twice.
North Carolina
Judge Jefferson Griffin conceded to Justice Allison Riggs yesterday, finally ending the contested state Supreme Court race, our partners at The Assembly report.
From The Assembly: Amid renewed attacks on their health care access and rights, transgender North Carolinians say they don’t feel the same swell of support they did nine years ago when HB 2 was passed.
Today’s weather
Sunny with a high of 83 degrees.
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