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RALEIGH, N.C.—Womble Carlyle attorney Liz Riley has been appointed to a state task force charged with keeping the award-winning Governor's School of North Carolina  program running.
 

Earlier this year, the North Carolina General Assembly eliminated funding for the Governor’s School, a summer residential program for intellectually gifted high school students from across North Carolina. The six-week residential program was the first in the nation, established in 1963. In recent years the program has been housed at both Salem College in Winston-Salem and Meredith College in Raleigh. In response to the budget cuts, the North Carolina Governor’s School Task Force was appointed by the State Board of Education to study the program and to prepare a recommendation to the State Board for the 2012 session of Governor’s School.

Liz Riley is an education law attorney who provides advice and support in areas including school policy, governance, compliance, risk and claims management, financing issues and construction law. Liz is experienced with the organization, licensure and chartering requirements necessary to establish new schools, auxiliary or foreign campuses and degree-granting programs. She practices in Womble Carlyle’s Raleigh, N.C., office.