RALEIGH — School systems across the state gradually are dropping the use of spanking and paddling. The State Board of Education is encouraging the remaining ones to stop, too.
The board voted at its meeting Thursday to oppose the use of corporal punishment in all North Carolina schools.
Raleigh, NC) -New data show half of all North Carolina residents (49.9 percent) teeter on the edge of financial disaster with almost no savings to protect their families during a medical emergency or other financial crisis.
By John Frank and Lynn Bonner
jfrank@newsobserver.com
The eighteenth annual North Carolina Child Health Report Card, recently published by Action for Children North Carolina and the North Carolina Institute of Medicine, is a compilation of important indicators of child health and safety in our state over the past five years. This year it is something in addition: it reminds us of the progress (or lack thereof) made under an outgoing administration, and sets the bar for the incoming administration.
The child poverty rate in North Carolina is expected to remain at 26 percent, among the highest in the nation, according to a recent student by the bipartisan national child advocacy group First Focus.
The study used unemployment, nutrition assistance and lagged poverty data for its forecast.
One of every 10 children in North Carolina lived with a parent who has been unemployed this year, according to a study released Thursday by a Washington nonpartisan advocacy group.
The study by First Focus determined that 118,000 N.C. children lived with parents who were unemployed for six months or more this year. The statistic is up from 23,000, or one in 25 children, when the recession began in late 2007.
CARRBORO – North Carolina remains one of only two states in the country to continue to prosecute 16- and 17-year-olds as adults, regardless of the crime they commit.
Two bills in the Senate and House would amend the law to allow teens of those ages who commit non-violent crimes to be prosecuted as juveniles.
State Sen. Ellie Kinnaird (D-Dist. 23) is championing the legislation, which she maintains is anything but soft on crime.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. —
