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Wednesday March 22nd

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DTH Photo Illustration. Gov. Roy Cooper's new behavioral health plan highlights what a pressing issue declining mental health has become in North Carolina.

Cooper releases $1 billion behavioral health plan, requires legislature approval

Gov. Roy Cooper’s new behavioral health plan, released on March 8, aims to invest $1 billion to address North Carolina’s mental health and substance use crisis, according to a press release. The plan focuses on increasing the availability of behavioral health services, implementing systems to support people in crisis and using technology to enable better health access and outcomes.

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The sun sets over the neighborhood in which Dave Jernigan stayed in during his time in Lviv, Ukraine. Photo courtesy of Dave Jernigan. 

A look at three North Carolinians who volunteer in, around Ukraine

Meet Dave Jernigan, Jonathan Mills and Isabella Romine: three North Carolinians who played, and still play, significant roles in helping Ukrainian refugees since the Russian invasion over a year ago.  “Lviv — it's a really beautiful place,” Jernigan said. “It’s a very vibrant city, but everywhere you look you see trauma.” In one of his volunteer roles, Jernigan said he helped convert a network of Soviet-era tunnels under hospitals into air raid shelters so patients and doctors could evacuate — sometimes mid-surgery — if imminent danger were to arise.

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The Supreme Court of North Carolina, located in Raleigh, is pictured on Aug. 26, 2022.

NC Supreme Court accepts new filings in 2022 Leandro case, rehearing possible

On Friday, the N.C. Supreme Court decided in a 5-2 order along party lines that it would stop the transfer of money by a lower court toward public education in the state. The new Republican majority on the state Supreme Court agreed with the State Controller's argument that the office's potential criminal liability for moving the money was not adequately addressed in the court's November opinion.

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DTH Photo Illustration. The N.C. State of the Teacher Profession Survey for 2021-22 reveals high rates of attrition and teacher vacancies. Teachers say the job's demands aren't reflected in their paychecks.

Teachers reflect as vacancies, attrition in NC education system continue

According to recent data from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, teachers are staying in the classroom at rates comparable to previous years.   Though teacher vacancies at the beginning and 40-day mark of the school year are higher, the difference might not represent an actual change in vacancy rates, but a change in reporting methods to more accurately reflect the state of the teaching profession.

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The Supreme Court of the United States pictured on Monday, Oct. 31, 2022.

U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in case on redistricting and NCGA power

The U.S. Supreme Court is to decide whether the Republican gerrymander of North Carolina districts should continue to be subject to judicial review in state courts.  If the Court rules in favor of N.C. state legislature Republicans, the checks and balances at the state court level would be harshly restricted. The Court’s ruling would apply to every state in the country. "I think what might strike a person is that this is a proposal that gets rid of the normal checks and balances on the way big governmental decisions are made in this country," Justice Elena Kagan said. 

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