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Enloe High School has raised $1 million for local charities. It needs $60,000 more.
The News & Observer BY T. KEUNG HUI Enloe High School’s Charity Ball has raised more than $1 million over the last 15 years to help local charities, but this year’s efforts to help a Southeast Raleigh-based organization will go down to the wire. Charity ball organizers want to raise $200,000 by Dec. 7 to…
Read MoreEDUCATION PNC Foundation gifts $250,000 to 3 groups serving Raleigh children
WRAL By Ken Smith, anchor/reporter RALEIGH, N.C. — The PNC Foundation gifted $250,000 on Tuesday to three local groups that serve children and specialize in early childhood education. Stakeholders and recipients gathered at Southeast Raleigh Elementary at noon for a speech and ceremony, which included entertainment from preschool-age singers. The three organizations receiving the grant…
Read MoreSERP Launches Early Learning and Kindergarten Readiness Pilot Program
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New elementary school in Y facility aims to turn Southeast Raleigh’s image around
The News & Observer By: T. Keung Hui The Wake County school system has 191 schools, but the only school with a swimming pool is not in affluent western Cary but in Southeast Raleigh. Southeast Raleigh Elementary School opened Aug. 26 with features not found in typical Wake elementary schools, such as an outdoor swimming…
Read MoreSaving the lives of black babies in Wake County is the goal of a new effort
The News & Observer Lynn Bonner Black babies in Wake County are six times more likely to die before they reach their first birthday than white babies. The higher death rate for black babies is a statewide problem, but the gap between black and white babies’ survival was wider in Wake in 2017 than it was…
Read MoreWarm welcomes encourage children on first day of school in Wake, Durham, Cumberland counties
The majority of students in central North Carolina headed back to school Monday. Wake County Public School System schools on the traditional calendar, Durham Public Schools, and Cumberland County Schools all start the 2019-2020 school year. In Wake County, there were more than 10,000 teachers and administrators ready to greet 161,000 students on the first…
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