Cooper lets changes to NC schools for deaf blind become law

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Governance of the state’s public residential schools for the deaf and the blind is being shifted to new trustee boards controlled by General Assembly appointees in legislation that became law Monday because Gov. Roy Cooper neither signed nor vetoed it. The state constitution gave the Democratic governor until Sunday night to act upon the measure, or otherwise it would be enacted without his signature. The absence of action is a little surprising since less than a year ago Cooper vetoed a very similar bill. At that time, he said the proposed makeup of the boards —…