Notable numbers: Corporal punishment, the Constitution and Obama’s bracket
122 The number of times corporal punishment was used on a student in North Carolina during the 2013-14 school year
147 The number of times it was used during the 2014-15 school year, a 20.5 percent increase
60 The percentage of those paddlings used on a child in kindergarten through fourth grade
25 The percentage used on those in grades 10-12
50 The approximate percentage of the students paddled who were Native American
1 The approximate percentage of North Carolina’s 1.4 million public school students who are Native American
60 The percentage of the corporal punishment events that were in Robeson County, home of the Lumbee
32 The percentage that took place in Graham County, near the Cherokee Indian reservation
10 The percentage of those paddled who were identified as disabled
19 The number of states where corporal punishment in schools is still legal
$1.3 million What conservative PACs spent in the fall attacking Donald Trump
$24 million What they have spent since the Iowa caucus in January
$12 million How much of that $24 million was spent after Super Tuesday
70 The percentage of Mormons in the United States who are Republican or lean Republican
68 The percentage of white, evangelical Protestants who do
55 The percentage of white Southerners who do
35 The percentage of millennials who do
80 The percentage of black voters who are Democratic or lean Democratic
65 The percentage of Asians who do
61 The percentage of the religiously unaffiliated who do
51 The percentage of millennials who do
1 Where Wake ranks on the state list of healthiest counties, as determined from health behaviors, access to care, social and economic factors, and the physical environment
2 Where Orange ranks
15 Where Durham ranks
28 Where Johnston ranks
100 Where Robeson ranks, the lowest
1 Where Kansas came out on President Obama’s NCAA basketball bracket
2 The finish that the president predicted for UNC-CH
460,434 The number of votes Bernie Sanders received in the North Carolina Democratic primary
40.75 The percentage of the total primary votes cast that were for Sanders
458,411 The number of votes Donald Trump received in the North Carolina Republican primary
40.24 The percentage of the total primary votes cast that were for Trump
49 The percentage of Americans who say the decisions of the Supreme Court should be based on its understanding of what the Constitution “means in current times”
70 The percentage of Democrats who say that
46 The percentage of Americans who say decisions should be based on what the Constitution “meant as it was originally written”
69 The percentage of Republicans who say that
This story was originally published March 18, 2016 at 4:30 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: Corporal punishment, the Constitution and Obama’s bracket."