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Wayne County residents urge board to protect public schools as voucher spending and arts cuts continue
Summary
Public commenters at the Wayne County Board of Education meeting criticized expanding private school vouchers and warned that cuts to arts positions are weakening public schools.
Speakers at a Wayne County Board of Education meeting urged the board to oppose the state's expansion of private school vouchers and to act to preserve arts positions after recent and proposed cuts to arts staffing.
Zaire Webb, a Wayne County native and a senior at East Carolina University, told the board, "We are currently we've already spent in in our last budget a hundred and $85,000,000 on private school vouchers, while our public schools are being cut time and time again." Webb said the state plans "to push over close to a half a billion dollars to private school vouchers in the next coming up budget" and reported that "these school…
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