Perdue signs first bill
Gov. Bev Perdue signed her first bill into law today. Senate Bill 198 allows the same person to hold the post of North Carolina School Board Chairman and Executive Director of the state's public schools.
Perdue's pick for the job is former Cumberland County Schools Superintendent Bill Harrison.
Perdue announced the merger of the two positions back in January as part of an effort to clarify lines of authority within the school system.
"We are putting a system together so we all talk one talk and walk one walk," Perdue told reporters, legislators and a passel of school children gathered in the Old House Chamber at the Capitol Wednesday morning.
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