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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Standards writers have released the first draft of proposed revisions to North Carolina’s Healthful Living standards, which include Physical Education and Health/Sex Ed
Published: Wednesday, November 1st, 2023 @ 7:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s new science standards add beneficial introductory material about the scientific method and its importance
Published: Saturday, October 7th, 2023 @ 11:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The head of the N.C. Association of Educators and fellow plaintiffs have dropped their lawsuit against North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship Program.
Published: Thursday, May 25th, 2023 @ 6:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Wednesday, N.C. Senate Republicans held a press conference introducing the Parents’ Bill of Rights. which they say would give parents more control over the direction of their child’s education and require more transparency in public schools.
Published: Monday, February 13th, 2023 @ 8:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Since the pandemic, the sizable growth of public charter schools in North Carolina shows that parents want different choices for their children's education.
Published: Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 @ 8:43 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A new Civitas poll shows that North Carolina parents are concerned about the safety of students in the classroom and the politicization of public schools.
Published: Sunday, December 4th, 2022 @ 1:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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...so you don't have to.
Published: Thursday, August 4th, 2022 @ 12:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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82% of parents say they “would be willing to vote outside their political party based on the candidate’s education platform.”
Published: Friday, July 8th, 2022 @ 4:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The John Locke Foundation offers a Parents’ Bill of Rights to reassert parental authority over their child’s education
Published: Sunday, April 24th, 2022 @ 12:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new Parents’ Bill of Rights out this week is intended to protect the right of parents to direct their children’s education and protect their safety in the classroom.
Published: Thursday, April 21st, 2022 @ 2:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Since 2020, North Carolina has received -almost $6.1 billion in federal covid relief funds.
Published: Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 @ 7:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Now that personnel data for local public schools has been posted by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, we have data on how the pandemic may have impacted staffing levels in local school districts.
Published: Sunday, March 27th, 2022 @ 8:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Learning loss in huge problem in the United States. A July 2021 analysis by McKinsey & Company consulting found that by the end of the school year, students were on average five months behind in mathematics and four months behind in reading.
Published: Friday, March 11th, 2022 @ 5:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Earlier this week the State Superintendent Catherine Truitt announced her office was seeking applicants to serve on a New 48- member Parent Advisory Commission to “elevate the voice of parents in students’ education.”
Published: Thursday, March 3rd, 2022 @ 11:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Parents across North Carolina want their voices heard on what’s best for their children, especially after two years of lockdowns, mask mandates, and changing curriculum.
Published: Sunday, February 27th, 2022 @ 10:11 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The recent Civitas School Choice Poll highlights the growing popularity of school choice in North Carolina and the public’s desire for expanded educational options.
Published: Saturday, February 19th, 2022 @ 12:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Public Schools in N.C. Lose Students to Private, Charter, Home Schools
Published: Monday, February 7th, 2022 @ 1:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Hats off to the folks at Axios for creating a data map using new Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
Published: Saturday, February 5th, 2022 @ 3:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It’s National School Choice Week. North Carolina and all of America will be celebrating the ability of parents to choose the best education for their child.
Published: Saturday, February 5th, 2022 @ 12:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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My Locke colleagues Dr. Terry Stoops and Dr. Bob Luebke in the Center for Effective Education are the experts in school choice and education policy, so be sure to follow their analysis of this and other school choice data.
Published: Saturday, February 5th, 2022 @ 9:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Those straining noises you heard yesterday were the eyebrows of North Carolina school choice advocates being raised in justified skepticism.
Published: Saturday, January 29th, 2022 @ 12:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Chad Adelman and Katherine Silberstein of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University seem to think so. That’s the topic they tackle in a new Edunomics brief.
Published: Wednesday, January 26th, 2022 @ 1:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Securing up-to-date data on union membership changes has always been a challenge.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 1:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Saturday, January 15th, 2022 @ 8:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The new state budget provides an increase of 1.3 percent for each step of the salary schedule. In addition to several bonuses the budget also gives teachers an average 5 percent pay raise over two years.
Published: Saturday, January 15th, 2022 @ 2:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Masking, politicized curricula, lack of opportunity and dissatisfaction with remote learning: these are some of the issues that have enraged and engaged parents in North Carolina and across the nation.
Published: Friday, January 14th, 2022 @ 8:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Dr. Bob Luebke, senior fellow at the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, responds to a mainstream media attack against North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program.
Published: Friday, January 14th, 2022 @ 1:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The new North Carolina budget has many positive elements, with notable tax cuts and school choice expansion. On balance, there is more good than bad.
Published: Friday, January 7th, 2022 @ 12:24 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: Tuesday, November 16th, 2021 @ 10:22 am
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: Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021 @ 4:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I recently blogged on how NCAE’s membership — the state affiliate of the National Education Association — continues to slide.
Published: Monday, October 11th, 2021 @ 7:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Public school districts in North Carolina have received about $5.3 billion in COVID-related relief from the federal government.
Published: Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 @ 4:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Membership in the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) declined 2.4 percent last year.
Published: Saturday, July 31st, 2021 @ 9:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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