Source: GREENSBORO NEWS & RECORD, 6/5/21

 In a leading agricultural state such as North Carolina, where the $95.9 billion industry employs one fifth of the population, it stands to reason that students would have plenty of opportunities to take courses dealing with food and nutrition, animal science and other aspects of agriculture as early as sixth or seventh grade. But until recently, those courses didn’t exist, according to Brandon Simmons, data and curriculum coordinator of N.C. Virtual Public Schools...

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