The Macon County News reports that the new North Carolina budget will either gut or outright eliminate a number of teaching programs in the state, including the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program, slated for a phase-out beginning in 2012; the North Carolina Teacher Cadet Program, which is eliminated; the North Carolina Teacher Academy, which is eliminated; and the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching, for which funding was cut in half.
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Based in Franklin, The Macon County News is distributed in Franklin, Highlands, Otto, Sylva, Dillsboro, Webster, Cullowhee and Scaly Mountain, N.C., and in Dillard and Clayton, Ga. The Macon County News is on the Web at http://www.maconnews.com/.
