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Today, Governor Roy Cooper toured Cedar Ridge Elementary School in Lowgap and delivered supplies collected from the Governor’s School Supply Drive.

Governor Roy Cooper is directing $8 million in federal funding to provide a one-time special allocation to all NC Pre-K classrooms to help address classroom needs for the new school year.

Today, Governor Roy Cooper hosted a roundtable discussion at the Kathy Taft Center for Leadership and Excellence in Pitt County to highlight the extreme Republican plans to undermine and underfund public education in North Carolina.

Today, Governor Roy Cooper toured Moncure School in Chatham County and delivered supplies collected from the Governor’s School Supply Drive.

Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced an investment to help tackle North Carolina's school bus driver shortage crisis by allocating $1 million in federal funding to the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) in the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) to enhance school bus driver training capacity.

Today, Governor Roy Cooper visited Tools4Schools, a classroom supply store operated by WakeEd Partnership that provides free school supplies to Wake County Public School teachers.

Today, Governor Roy Cooper toured The Learning Center of Perquimans County to emphasize the urgent need for meaningful investments in child care and early childhood education and called on the legislature to return from vacation, get to work, start Medicaid expansion and pass a budget that invests in our public schools, teachers and early childhood education.

Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced the beginning of the Governor’s School Supply Drive, encouraging people across the state to donate school supplies in support of public schools, students and teachers.

Republican legislators have gone yet another week without passing a new state budget, separating Medicaid Expansion from the budget so it can start or taking any votes.

As Republican legislators go yet another week without passing a new budget, education leaders in 40 school districts across the state are continuing to speak out against extreme plans that would undermine and underfund public education and call on the legislature to make meaningful investments in public schools.