by Melissa Zenz | Mar 6, 2024 | News
As part of our work to improve educational attainment and workforce outcomes, all of our region’s counties have the same FAFSA completion goal, which we adopted from our statewide partner, myFutureNC: By 2030, the goal is that 80% of North Carolina high school...
by Melissa Zenz | Mar 5, 2024 | News
As part of our efforts toward achieving our Workforce strategic goal, our Executive Director, Emily Nicholson, is serving on the planning committee for the WNC Career Expo. The event will include a special field trip opportunity for our region’s high school...
by Melissa Zenz | Feb 13, 2024 | News
As part of our broader goals for educational attainment and workforce outcomes, we have a strategic goal pertaining specifically to the workforce: To make sure our efforts are working toward that goal, we stay informed about labor market trends and the needs of our...
by Melissa Zenz | Feb 11, 2024 | News
For National School Counseling Week 2024 (February 5-9, 2024), we are taking the opportunity to celebrate our region’s school counselors and to dig into the data on how our districts are doing in attaining the recommended ratios of students to school counselors....
by Melissa Zenz | Feb 2, 2024 | News
We first learned about this report from EdNC’s article New Interactive Map Shows How Learning Loss and Academic Recovery Varied by District in N.C. Check out their reporting for more on the state-level analysis. A new report from Education Recovery Scorecard...
by Melissa Zenz | Jan 31, 2024 | News
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NC DPI) recently released its 2022-2023 CTE Credential Attainment Report. One stunning achievement is that more than 325,000 credentials were earned by career and technical education (CTE) high school students in...
