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Good morning, readers.

Students detained at Durham’s juvenile detention facility are supposed to get up to six hours of instruction a day. Last year, an advocacy group visited the facility and found they’ve been getting closer to 30 minutes.

That finding is now at the center of a state investigation. Last week, North Carolina’s Department of Public Instruction announced that it would examine whether Durham Public Schools has failed to educate disabled students at the Durham County Youth Home, a 36-bed facility on Broad Street. Disabled students are the focus of the investigation, in part because they are legally entitled under federal law to instruction tailored to their individual needs.

In December, the ACLU of North Carolina and Duke’s Children’s Law Clinic filed an initial complaint with the state and were turned away at first for lack of evidence. After the groups refiled last month with a report from Disability Rights NC, the state’s federally designated disability advocacy organization, the state agreed to look into it. 

Durham Public Schools and the Youth Home are both county-run but have offered differing accounts of who’s responsible for students’ time in the classroom.

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—Lena

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Curtain Call

Carolina Ballet is set to start a new chapter in a Cary mixed-use development that will also include shops and cafes, Jasmine Gallup writes for the INDY.

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On a Budget

The City of Durham’s minimum wage, which is tied to housing costs, is expected to jump by four times the typical increase, adding to an already tough budget season, the INDY’s Justin Laidlaw reports.

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Record Time

For Sunshine Week, a coalition of media outlets, including The Assembly, requested emails from cities across the state. Some in the Triangle were prompt, while others were unresponsive.

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