The new judge overseeing North Carolina’s long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit wants another seven days to issue his ruling. He asked the N.C. Supreme Court Tuesday to grant him another week to consider the case.
Published: Thursday, April 21st, 2022 @ 12:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A new filing in the long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit would lop another $25 million off of the cost of court-ordered education spending.
Published: Tuesday, April 19th, 2022 @ 5:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Plaintiffs and N.C. Justice Department lawyers are urging a judge to order $795 million in new state education spending.
Published: Wednesday, April 13th, 2022 @ 1:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Published: Sunday, April 10th, 2022 @ 6:43 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State officials report that close to $800 million remains unfunded from a judge’s $1.7 billion state education spending order. That assessment resulted from a court-ordered comparison of the spending plan and the new state budget.
Published: Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 @ 7:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The fight over $1.7 billion in court-ordered N.C. education spending is heading to a new judge. Court records confirm that the long-running legal case known as Leandro is heading to Special Superior Court Judge Michael Robinson.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 8:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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One line in a new court order could mark a major new development in the long-running legal battle over education funding in North Carolina. The line strikes at the heart of a constitutional dispute about $1.7 billion that has reached the state’s highest court.
Published: Monday, March 28th, 2022 @ 2:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The legal dispute over $1.7 billion in court-ordered N.C. education funding will head back to a Wake County courtroom on April 13. The new judge overseeing the dispute set that date during his first online meeting Thursday with lawyers involved in the case.
Published: Saturday, March 26th, 2022 @ 5:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court has agreed to jump back into the state’s long-running school funding legal dispute. The court wants a trial judge to assess the impact of the new state budget on a $1.7 billion order for additional state education spending.
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 @ 1:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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For all their virtue-signaling about caring for the poor, the progressive game plan to help the poor has an abysmal track record.
Published: Sunday, February 27th, 2022 @ 12:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The original judge in North Carolina’s long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit disputes the notion that a judge can force other government actors to spend more money on education.
Published: Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 @ 5:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Local tech CEO bankrolls consultants, universities, and politicians in an effort to control the state's education spending and inserts a political agenda into the classroom.
Published: Sunday, November 21st, 2021 @ 8:05 am
By: John Woodard
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A proposed tax cut from Senate Republicans would move North Carolina to fifth in the state business tax climate rankings, the Tax Foundation says.
Published: Tuesday, June 8th, 2021 @ 7:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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: Saturday, April 24th, 2021 @ 6:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In case you’re wondering what’s happened with all the money appropriated to public schools through the federal ‘relief’ bills, you’re not alone.
Published: Monday, April 5th, 2021 @ 9:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper’s latest two-year budget plan would spend far too much money, setting North Carolina’s state government on an unsustainable future path.
Published: Friday, March 26th, 2021 @ 7:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A plan for North Carolina to provide an opportunity for a sound, basic education to all students now waits with a judge in Superior Court.
Published: Thursday, March 18th, 2021 @ 10:06 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Reopening schools is the top priority of Catherine Truitt, the Republican candidate for state superintendent.
Published: Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 @ 3:01 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The left-wing group Progress NC describes itself as “a 501(c)3 non-partisan non-profit organization dedicated to informing voters of key public policy issues through traditional news media, online engagement, and hands-on communications trainings.”
Published: Thursday, October 1st, 2020 @ 11:10 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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This year, North Carolina got a new means of evaluating K12 schools.
Published: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020 @ 3:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Speaker of the House Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, says nearly 50 N.C. Democratic House lawmakers and candidates have backed a dangerous pledge to defund the police, but House Minority Leader Darren Jackson, D-Wake, says that’s a lie.
Published: Thursday, September 17th, 2020 @ 12:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Judge David Lee, the overseer of the Leandro case, approved a plan Tuesday, Sept. 1, calling for millions more in education spending to meet North Carolina’s constitutional obligation to provide a sound, basic education to every child.
Published: Thursday, September 3rd, 2020 @ 3:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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James Antle of the Washington Examiner highlights the president’s recent endorsement of school choice.
Published: Monday, August 3rd, 2020 @ 12:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The end of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline shuts the door on one example of Gov. Roy Cooper’s executive overreach.
Published: Friday, July 17th, 2020 @ 4:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Education activists and Democratic lawmakers want to spend more on education, even as the state faces a massive budget shortfall and is entering a potentially disastrous hurricane season.
Published: Monday, June 22nd, 2020 @ 6:43 am
By: Carolina Journal
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This week, the plaintiffs and the defendants in the Leandro v. North Carolina case submitted their action plan to Superior Court Judge David Lee, who was appointed four years ago to oversee the state’s compliance with the 26-year-old case.
Published: Thursday, June 18th, 2020 @ 3:11 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Every February, the Information Analysis section of the Division of School Business at the NC Department of Public Instruction (DPI) publishes “Highlights of the North Carolina Public School Budget.”
Published: Thursday, May 28th, 2020 @ 7:59 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Leandro v. State of North Carolina casts a long shadow over the public schools in the Tar Heel state.
Published: Saturday, May 23rd, 2020 @ 11:12 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The N.C. Department of Public Instruction (DPI) released its annual “Highlights of the North Carolina Public School Budget” on May 18.
Published: Thursday, May 21st, 2020 @ 5:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There has been much hyperventilating about teacher frustration in North Carolina (see here and here) and how it’s driving people to look elsewhere for jobs or to leave the profession altogether.
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2020 @ 7:00 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina’s poor school districts are getting shortchanged on funding.
Published: Thursday, February 27th, 2020 @ 5:54 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A recent poll commissioned by Raleigh news station WRAL has some serious flaws – but that’s not stopping the media and left-leaning groups from promoting the results as gospel truth.
Published: Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 @ 9:49 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The Republican and Democratic candidates for state superintendent had similar positions on the causes of school re-segregation and the need to find common ground.
Published: Saturday, February 15th, 2020 @ 12:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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