Source: WRAL, 3/5/19

North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's two-year budget would seek to borrow twice as much as state House Republicans are proposing in their respective proposed construction bond referendums. Cooper pitched the borrowing and several other education-related parts of his spending proposal on Tuesday at a conference in Greensboro. They include raises for all public school teachers, restoring a pay bump for teachers with master's degrees and providing tens of millions of dollars toward school safety and health staff and improvements.

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