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Residents urge legislature for Helene relief funds, call for public-school support amid voucher expansion
Summary
Several residents used the board's public comment period to ask the board and the community to press state legislators for full disaster recovery funding after Hurricane Helene and to oppose expanding state voucher programs that they said divert public money from schools.
During public comment at the Feb. 10 board meeting, several residents urged the Henderson County Board of Public Education and the community to press state legislators for full funding for Western North Carolina recovery after Hurricane Helene and to oppose policies that redirect public school funding to private-school vouchers.
Mary Landry, representing the League of Women Voters of Henderson County, said the organization will deliver thank-you gifts to teachers Feb. 18 and encouraged the…
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