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RALEIGH, N.C. -
Gov. Beverly Perdue is starting the first day of school in North Carolina like many students - with a bus ride.
Perdue planned to greet parents and students at a downtown Raleigh school bus stop Tuesday morning. Then she'll board the bus with students and travel to Conn Elementary School. There she'll tour the school and welcome students through closed-circuit television.
The governor is a former teacher who spent this summer's budget negotiations trying to preserve funding for public education despite dwindling tax collections. The final budget bill she signed still required school districts to find $225 million in cost savings in grades 4-12.
State law requires most public schools to open no earlier than Aug. 25, with some exceptions.
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