A sign welcomed “Education Governor Roy Cooper” Tuesday to Claxton Elementary School in Greensboro for Cooper’s final stop on his tour of public schools and his final school visit as the state’s 75th governor.
“Education is the key to most every opportunity,” Cooper told an audience of state and local education advocates, professionals, and elected officials. “That’s why our public schools needed to be in the spotlight this year.”
Cooper declared 2024 the “Year of Public Schools” in January amid travel he began in 2023 after Republican legislators introduced and passed a large expansion of Opportunity Scholarships, state-funded vouchers for students to attend private schools…