RALEIGH — The State Board of Education received the annual K-12 school crime report during its meeting last week.
The board also called for sweeping pay raises for all staff, including nonteaching and administrative staff, as well as a moratorium on funding for the Opportunity Scholarship program that gives grants to students to attend the private school of their choice.
Michael Maher, chief accountability officer for the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, delivered the crime report presentation to the board. He noted the school crime report has been given a new title — “Annual Report Discipline, Alternative Learning Placement, and Dropout,” or DALD for short…