Valerie Crowder
News ReporterValerie Crowder was a reporter for Public Radio East.
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As educators in red states across the country go on strike, North Carolina’s teachers are planning to take action of their own. The state’s teachers’…
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State funding for public education in North Carolina remains below pre-recession levels, despite inflation and higher personnel costs. And less funding…
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In two state legislative districts in Onslow County, it’s been more than a decade since a Democrat has run. State Rep. George Cleveland, R-Onslow, and…
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School district leaders in two Eastern North Carolina counties are partnering with local law enforcement to keep students who commit low-level offenses…
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About 75 middle school and high school students at Ocracoke School left their classrooms and gathered in the gymnasium this morning to demonstrate against…
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East Carolina University received two hundred lime green bicycles on Monday for students, faculty and visitors to ride on campus.Joshua Rossnagel,…
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A key Republican state lawmaker is calling for a formal legislative investigation into a roughly $58 million deal between Gov. Roy Cooper’s office and the…
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Prosecutors in five Eastern North Carolina counties will soon begin requesting minimum bail amounts of $1 million for those charged with selling opioids,…
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Residents along North Carolina's coast are fighting again to keep oil companies from drilling in nearby waters after the Trump administration recently…
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Pitt County Schools is taking some of the credit for declining high school dropout rates. "Over the past several years, our school system has made it a…