Tensions flared between members of the North Carolina State Board of Education on Thursday over the approval of a new charter school.
Published: Saturday, March 16th, 2024 @ 3:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A new scholarship will help more North Carolina families attend university and offer them debt-free community college.
Published: Saturday, March 2nd, 2024 @ 2:50 pm
By: Attila Nemecz
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Kaitlyn Shepherd, policy analyst for the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, gives us a concise overview of the choices parents have in the education of their children in North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, February 25th, 2024 @ 4:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Wake Forest filed a series of state Supreme Court briefs Friday defending its decision to reject a proposed charter school in 2020.
Published: Saturday, February 3rd, 2024 @ 7:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The wait is finally over. North Carolina has a solidified new state budget, and it includes a major victory for families across the state.
Published: Tuesday, January 16th, 2024 @ 1:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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What if the qualifications that secure college and university accreditation instead secured accreditation for individual scholars?
Published: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 1:45 pm
By: Daily Wire
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At long last, the North Carolina House and Senate are set to vote on a conference budget this week after months of delays.
Published: Thursday, December 21st, 2023 @ 9:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Finally. The Republican conference budget proposal was finally released earlier today. I’m sure readers are aware of the infighting among Republican lawmakers regarding casino legislation and Medicaid expansion.
Published: Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 @ 12:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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“North Carolina’s entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well,” North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall told Council of State members at their monthly meeting on Tuesday.
Published: Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 @ 11:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives voted to reject a school choice measure on Friday, drawing the ire of Republican Governor Greg Abbott.
Published: Sunday, December 3rd, 2023 @ 11:34 am
By: Daily Wire
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Federal grant expands midwifery care for North Carolina
Published: Wednesday, November 29th, 2023 @ 2:59 pm
By: ECU News Services
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A new report on Florida’s K-12 education system describes the main tenets of Critical Social Justice, discusses how this ideology finds its way into K-12 schools, and documents how Florida has worked to reduce its spread
Published: Tuesday, November 28th, 2023 @ 12:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State government data show that North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program serves students from low- and moderate-income households
Published: Saturday, November 25th, 2023 @ 7:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s Hispanic population holds the lowest high school graduation rate of any other race/ethnic group in the state, proving to be one of the biggest challenges facing that community today.
Published: Wednesday, November 8th, 2023 @ 7:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Graduating senior receives career confirmation through PFI internship with art museum
Published: Monday, November 6th, 2023 @ 6:02 pm
By: ECU News Services
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North Carolina’s budget for the new biennium would expand school choice across the state to an unprecedented level.
Published: Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 @ 9:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A new study from the Heritage Foundation finds that states with expansive school choice have lower private-school tuition rate increases than states without school choice.
Published: Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 @ 5:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a time for individuals, organizations, educators and policymakers to recognize and address cyber threats.
Published: Thursday, October 19th, 2023 @ 2:05 pm
By: Ben Coulter, Ed.D.
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Tennessee lawmakers are looking at rejecting federal dollars for public education and replacing them with state dollars in a move that would make Tennessee the first in the nation to turn down federal education funding.
Published: Sunday, October 8th, 2023 @ 8:19 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Sablefish study leads to interest in coding
Published: Sunday, September 24th, 2023 @ 2:02 am
By: ECU News Services
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ECU, UNC Pembroke sign dental school early assurance agreement
Published: Monday, September 18th, 2023 @ 3:42 am
By: ECU News Services
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Researchers work to unlock secrets of antibiotic resistance
Published: Sunday, September 10th, 2023 @ 6:18 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Students explore interests, life at ECU through summer camps
Published: Saturday, September 9th, 2023 @ 12:05 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Library exhibit details decades of Pirate football moments, memorabilia
Published: Thursday, August 31st, 2023 @ 4:59 pm
By: ECU News Services
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ECU’s newest class of medical students receive white coats
Published: Thursday, August 17th, 2023 @ 1:20 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Dual nursing, business degree program aims to improve health care administration
Published: Monday, August 14th, 2023 @ 8:59 pm
By: ECU News Services
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A bill to create a board for authorizing the creation of new charter schools could soon be up for a vote on the floor of the North Carolina Senate, after passing that chamber’s education committee June 14.
Published: Friday, August 4th, 2023 @ 9:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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ECU medical research team discovers paradigm-shattering muscle phenotype
Published: Tuesday, August 1st, 2023 @ 7:40 am
By: ECU News Services
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Nursing professor works to serve Ukrainian refugees
Published: Sunday, July 30th, 2023 @ 9:32 am
By: ECU News Services
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Oklahoma approved the first religious charter school in the U.S. on Monday.
Published: Thursday, June 22nd, 2023 @ 8:42 am
By: Daily Wire
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Opponents of school choice claim that private schools are unaccountable because they don’t have to satisfy every testing mandate required of traditional public schools, yet private schools are subject to the highest standard of accountability: parents
Published: Thursday, June 8th, 2023 @ 11:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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