Examining The Common Core In NC

WUNC | By Hady Mawajdeh,

Published August 18, 2015 at 12:06 PM EDT

North Carolina education leaders are proposing dramatic changes to the state's public education system.

A group tasked with retooling the Common Core standards met yesterday to present their preliminary recommendations Common Core in NC

The Academic Standards Review Commission was created by the state legislature in 2014 and their changes are expected to be implemented in the 2015-2016 school year.

Host Frank Stasio talks with WUNC education reporter Reema Khrais about drafts and recommendations from yesterday's meeting.

Hady Mawajdeh

Hady Mawajdeh is a native Texan, born and raised in San Antonio. He listened to Fresh Air growing up and fell in love with public radio. He earned his B.A. in Mass Communication at Texas State University and specialized in electronic media. He worked at NPR affiliate stations KUT and KUTX in Austin, Texas as an intern, producer, social media coordinator, and a late-night deejay.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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