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Brenda Berg, CEO of BEST NC, on North Carolina's new teacher pay raises and first-in-the-nation education programs

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Brenda Berg, CEO of BEST NC, joins Lisa to discuss how the new North Carolina state budget raises average teacher pay by 8.5%, pushes starting teacher salaries to the highest in the region, expands the Advanced Teaching Roles initiative and launches TeachReadyNC, the nation's first state teacher apprenticeship program for alternatively licensed teachers.

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