WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper visited the Triad on Tuesday. He's making education the focus of his trip.
He visited Moore Magnet Elementary School in Winston-Salem. Cooper highlighted the North Carolina Education Corps Program (NCEC), a nonprofit born out of the COVID-19 pandemic to help combat learning loss in young students.
NCEC partners with local public school units (PSUs) to recruit, train, and support corps members to accelerate learning, according to its website. Corps members are employed by schools to work part-time as literacy tutors. The tutors assist K-3 students with building foundational skills for reading.
The program is in more than 20 districts around the state, including Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools.
Tutors come in and help the students who need it the most. Cooper talked with some of the tutors and students during his visit.
"We know the challenges of this pandemic, we know children got behind some, so we needed a way to focus on extra help for our students," Cooper said. "This North Carolina Education Corps which is a public, private effort takes people who are willing to be tutors, gives those people additional training, and also pays them.”