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Congresswoman and House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC5) and Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) introduced legislation Tuesday that would repeal President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan that would cost taxpayers billions of dollars.
Published: Saturday, December 9th, 2023 @ 3:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If you ask the average person about private schools, most will say they are expensive and cost more to attend than traditional public schools
Published: Saturday, September 29th, 2018 @ 9:09 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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When politicians and Education Department bureaucrats began designing policies to lessen college students' federal loan burdens, they weren't concerned much with the cost to the taxpayers
Published: Friday, December 16th, 2016 @ 11:48 am
By: John William Pope Center
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All is not well on higher education's financial front. At many colleges, tuition prices have reached record highs, enrollment is stagnant, revenues have flattened or declined, budgets are constricted, and regulatory compliance costs are skyrocketing
Published: Monday, November 21st, 2016 @ 12:45 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Home, Private Schools Saved Taxpayers Between $1.35 and $1.58 Billion
Published: Thursday, September 8th, 2016 @ 3:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Could it be that Higher Education's big problem is the use of the word "Higher".
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 2:38 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Do you wonder why political adversaries seem so often to talk past each other rather than produce useful debate on important issues? One reason is that, in many cases, they really aren't talking about the same things.
Published: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016 @ 4:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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While the athletic departments at UNC-Chapel Hill, N.C. State University, and Appalachian State University prepare to collect extra revenue from the college football bowl games they'll play, a recent study by The Chronicle of Higher Education and the Huffington Post, "Sports At Any Cost," reveals...
Published: Sunday, January 10th, 2016 @ 4:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Those who watch state government have had plenty to talk about since the General Assembly passed the state's new $21.7 billion state budget. Since education is the single largest item in the state budget, here are three things you probably didn't hear about education spending.
Published: Thursday, October 1st, 2015 @ 5:56 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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According to the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, 15 percent of community college students who transfer lose nearly all of their credits in the process, costing them precious time and money. Another third lose a significant proportion of their credits...
Published: Wednesday, August 5th, 2015 @ 12:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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One day, Bill Bennett may be best remembered for saying (in 1987, while he was President Reagan's education secretary) that government student aid was largely responsible for the fact that the cost of going to college kept rising. What is called the "Bennett Hypothesis" has been heavily debated
Published: Wednesday, July 29th, 2015 @ 10:07 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The Civitas Institute Center for Law and Freedom functions as North Carolina's conservative public interest law firm. In this capacity, we provide legal and educational services at no cost as a part of the Civitas Institute's overall charitable mission. To better understand who CLF is and what we...
Published: Saturday, June 27th, 2015 @ 5:37 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Civitas recently published findings on the cost of a high school diploma in North Carolina and academic performance - and the results undercut the myth that money alone can buy good education.
Published: Tuesday, January 6th, 2015 @ 7:04 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Are college students more likely to listen to a lecture about education policy if an adult film actress is behind the podium? They certainly filled the room for Belle Knox, whose real name is Miriam Weeks, a 19-year-old Duke student. She came to UNC-Chapel Hill on Tuesday to talk about the high cost
Published: Saturday, September 13th, 2014 @ 7:58 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Most of the 1,429 unaccompanied minors relocated to North Carolina after they entered the United States illegally were released to host families in Mecklenburg, Durham, and Wake counties, raising health and safety concerns, as well as concerns about increased education costs to local governments.
Published: Friday, September 5th, 2014 @ 5:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Education leaders and some politicians for years have urged that pay for educators in North Carolina be at "the national average," a goal used for no other employment sector in the state as a metric to gauge the appropriateness of pay.
Published: Monday, January 6th, 2014 @ 11:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Pope Center celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2013. Our organization was initially part of the John Locke Foundation, but became independent in 2003. One of our activities is researching problems in higher education and issuing findings and recommendations in major reports...
Published: Friday, January 3rd, 2014 @ 12:19 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The cost of a college education is rising. That fact has led Robert Samuels, president of the University Council-American Federation of Teachers, to conclude that college should be free. To accomplish that goal, Samuels suggests that the federal government should pick up the tab for all higher...
Published: Tuesday, December 24th, 2013 @ 1:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory called on North Carolina's education leaders to increase their production of community college and university graduates as well as devise more innovative methods to increase teacher pay.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2013 @ 4:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Higher education is not on a sustainable path. Underlying business models are crumbling, costs are spiraling, and there is for the first time significant doubt in the minds of parents and employers about the value of a college degree.
Published: Wednesday, February 13th, 2013 @ 1:11 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Want to make North Carolina public education more cost-effective?
Published: Monday, January 21st, 2013 @ 3:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Beaufort County Board of Eduacation must move in a direction that will either benefit the education of our youngest citizens, or sue their parents - the collective taxpayer.
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2009 @ 6:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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