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Budget for Child Care, Early Ed Looks Thin for Coming Year

By Rose Hoban In the past three budget years, North Carolina’s various early-childhood education programs – Head Start, NC Pre-K and Smart Start – have seen almost $70 million trimmed from their state allocations. Advocates for early-childhood programs say that the prospects for the budget coming out of the legislative short session that begins in […]