New data released by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction shows the percentage of students graduating on-time with their peers reached a historic high for the graduating class of 2012.

View the attached press release, or visit the North Carolina state profile on the KIDS COUNT Data Center for more information: http://bit.ly/OE9ZUn

The 23rd annual KIDS COUNT Data Book, released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, indicates that while North Carolina has significant progress left to make in overall child well-being, the state's investments of the last years in health and education for children have delivered results. The 2012 KIDS COUNT Data Book offers a view of child well-being through an analysis of 16 indicators, grouped into four overall categories: Health, Economic Well-Being, Education, and Family and Community.

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Action for Children North Carolina's Tom Vitaglione speaks on the new DSS child fatality review plan intended to reduce child deaths.  

Raleigh, N.C. --The U.S. Census Bureau will release new national data on poverty next week.

Raleigh, N.C.-The 2011 Child Health Report Card, issued jointly by Action for Children North Carolina and the North Carolina Institute of Medicine, finds infant mortality in North Carolina has dropped to 7 per 1,000 live births -- an all-time low for the state. 

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