North Carolina has slipped from its position as a national pre-kindergarten leader and appears headed for further decline, says the leader of a national research institute.
The state’s pre-kindergarten program for at-risk 4-year-olds once was one of only six state programs nationwide that met all the institute’s standards for quality. But enrollment and state spending on N.C. Pre-K have dropped, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Institute for Early Education Research. Read more here.
In other headlines:
--Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s campaign Monday began morphing into less of a pursuit of the presidency and more into an effort to shape the Republican platform and to influence the discussion in the fall elections. More here.
--In today's Dome, U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers gets the big treament from Politco and The Washington Post continues to rank North Carolina as the state most likely to see a partisan change in the governor's mansion. Apparenlty the D.C. punditry doesn't have any faith in the Democratic candidates.
