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The final of three debates on challenges facing North Carolina’s education system is slated for Wednesday evening, November 1, in Benson at the W. J. Barefoot Auditorium. This time experts will focus on education funding in North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, March 10th, 2024 @ 2:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Last week, the State Board of Education approved a resolution to move ahead with a framework to create a new way to license and pay teachers. Currently teachers are paid based on their years of experience.
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2022 @ 12:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Both options have enrollment that compares with some of the state's largest districts.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 9:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced appointments to North Carolina boards and commissions.
Published: Monday, May 23rd, 2022 @ 12:12 am
By: Governor's Office
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North Carolina education leaders signed an agreement to address the critical teacher shortage in the state.
Published: Monday, November 8th, 2021 @ 3:08 am
By: Attila Nemecz
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In North Carolina politics, few issues are as contentious as education.
Published: Thursday, March 11th, 2021 @ 8:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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TeachNC officially launched during an Education Cabinet meeting attended by myriad state and education officials.
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2019 @ 8:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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I believe that the leadership ability and management practices of school principals have a large effect on how well teachers teach and students learn.
Published: Monday, May 13th, 2019 @ 10:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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If you recently read or heard about North Carolina ranking 40th in "education" and found that rank plausible, I thank you for keeping up with the news
Published: Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018 @ 4:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The annual testing data and report cards for North Carolina's public schools are out
Published: Tuesday, September 19th, 2017 @ 12:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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My father was Darth Vader
Published: Friday, March 24th, 2017 @ 7:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If North Carolina were to secede from the union and become an independent country - no, conspiracy theorists, I'm not actually proposing this as a reasonable response to recent political events - how would our education system rank among the other developed nations of the world
Published: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017 @ 1:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As I write this, the balloting isn't yet over in North Carolina. But here's an election result I can forecast with absolute confidence: most North Carolinians, like most Americans, will be dissatisfied with the outcome
Published: Wednesday, December 28th, 2016 @ 6:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Monday, January 25th, 2016 @ 4:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state Senate's big kahuna went in front of the biggest, most-prominent Common Core-loving, spend-more-and-more-and-more money crowd and told them a few things I am SURE they didn't want to hear.
Published: Sunday, January 10th, 2016 @ 11:37 am
By: Brant Clifton
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For three years now, I've been defending the decision of the North Carolina General Assembly to end the longstanding practice of giving public-school teachers automatic pay boosts if they possess or obtain graduate degrees.
Published: Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 @ 1:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments to the North Carolina State University Board of Trustees.
Published: Monday, June 22nd, 2015 @ 2:00 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory spoke with teachers from throughout the state today for a meeting of his Teacher Advisory Committee, a committee re-established in September 2013 to address the needs of North Carolina K-12 teachers and students.
Published: Sunday, March 15th, 2015 @ 1:17 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Liberal activist organizations are challenging two new laws. In North Carolina Association of Educators, et al, v. The State of North Carolina, the state's teachers union challenged recent changes to North Carolina's tenure (aka "career status") law.
Published: Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 @ 1:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Today an employer at a minimum wants [graduates with] job-related skills or training, plus critical thinking and communication abilities," wrote Champion Mitchell, a member of the University of North Carolina system's Board of Governors, in a recent Pope Center featured. Mitchell, a former...
Published: Monday, December 16th, 2013 @ 3:59 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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