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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North Carolina legislators have filed a Parents’ Bill of Rights bill
Published: Tuesday, June 7th, 2022 @ 7:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If I told you that North Carolina had one of America's top-ranked systems of public education, there are at least three ways you could respond
Published: Sunday, July 22nd, 2018 @ 6:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Improving School Accountability In North Carolina
Published: Saturday, December 31st, 2016 @ 11:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, the N.C. Department of Public Instruction released student performance data for all schools and school districts in the state. The release included school performance grades, end-of-course and end-of-grade achievement level results, school accountability growth data, the 4-year and...
Published: Wednesday, September 30th, 2015 @ 3:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Billionaire Bill Gates, who has spent millions advocating for and implementing the Common Core Standards in 44 states and thousands of public schools across the United States, sends his children to a private school where it's hard to find any mention of the increasingly unpopular Common Core.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 11:28 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina should break free of the so-called Common Core State Standards, which are tied to attempts to nationalize public school education requirements.
Published: Saturday, February 16th, 2013 @ 9:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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No system of public education can thrive without a high-quality teacher workforce. The problem is that state education bureaucracies enforce certification and licensure rules that seldom distinguish excellent teachers from poor ones.
Published: Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012 @ 5:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, 'How can I get my kite in the air?' He told me to run off a cliff." - Rodney Dangerfield
Published: Saturday, May 5th, 2012 @ 12:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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