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Senate Unveils Budget Featuring $600 Million Boost For Education

State Senate chamber
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File photo of N.C. General Assembly in Raleigh, 2021.

The North Carolina Senate released their . The budget has significant implications for the state’s education system. It shifts how teacher raises are allocated and proposes a $600 million increase in education spending.

 

The budget also sets aside $150 million for victims of Hurricane Matthew. The storm devastated areas in central and eastern North Carolina last fall. Host Frank Stasio speaks with and about the proposed budget.

 

Laura Pellicer is a digital reporter with ¹ÏÉñapp’s small but intrepid digital news team.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's ¹ÏÉñapp Director.
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