//North Carolina schools to reopen under deal with Gov. Roy Cooper, General Assembly leaders

North Carolina schools to reopen under deal with Gov. Roy Cooper, General Assembly leaders

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and Senate leader Phil Berger announced a deal to get more K-12 public schools reopened as the COVID-19 pandemic improves.The terms, discussed late into Tuesday, ended a weekslong dispute between the Democratic governor and Republican lawmakers over how best to safely give the more than 1.4 million pupils in K-12 schools the opportunity to return to the classroom. Gov. Cooper