Weekend update: pre-July 4 edition
From the News & Record:
- Education reporter Morgan Josey takes a look at what Gov. Easley’s push to improve “low performing’ schools will mean for Guilford County.
- Summer intern takes a look at why the state is delaying putting in place a new Medicaid regulation.
Updating stories and blog entries from the past few weeks:
- The proposed smoking ban for General Assembly buildings got final approval from the legislature Friday. Unless the governor for some reasons vetoes it, look the legislature to turn smoke free this summer.
- I wrote a few weeks back about the effort to have more school kids saying the pledge. Well, the full House passed the measure Friday and its now in the Senate’s hands. Senators have the option of passing the bill sent over by the House with one vote, sending it to committee for further study or having a conference committee to hash out differences. (The Senate passed a somewhat stronger form of this bill earlier in the summer.)