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WILMINGTON -- Gov. Perdue made a stop in Wilmington on Friday. She spoke at the Wilmington Recovery Workshop at UNC Wilmington to a crowd of over 150 people.

The governor discussed how federal funds will be administered in North Carolina. Perdue also touched on the unemployment rate and budget cuts across the state’s education system. Perdue says the cuts mean fewer teachers and more students per classroom, but she hopes to keep schools at the elementary level immune from the cuts.

"As we are talking about cuts and we are seeing the numbers, I am going back this weekend and totally pulling out any kind of traumatic insult to pre-k through third grade and then the rest of the system will have to face the facts that there will be cut backs,” said Perdue.

The Wilmington stop was the fifth in a series of six economic recovery workshops for the governor.