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On Friday, Natalie Hopkinson of Howard University wrote a piece for Huffington Post suggesting that school choice was - you guessed it - racist.
Published: Sunday, March 18th, 2018 @ 11:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The House is scheduled to consider special school reform bill today, HB 1080. Rep. Rob Bryan (R-Mecklenburg) is championing legislation focused on giving our state more tools to help failing schools
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2016 @ 7:59 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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State Rep. Edward Hanes, D-Forsyth, said a proposed Achievement School District that would operate with charter school flexibility is a step in the right direction to turn around low-performing schools that are "death traps" for the prospects of minority children.
Published: Thursday, February 25th, 2016 @ 3:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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How do North Carolinians feel about their schools and how their children are educated? The November Civitas Poll provided plenty of good information about those topics.
Published: Tuesday, January 19th, 2016 @ 4:38 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The State Board of Education will consider again in February a proposal enabling failing traditional public schools to apply for an exemption easing some state regulations so they can operate more like charter schools.
Published: Tuesday, January 5th, 2016 @ 10:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina has been talking for years about fixing failing schools, but so far it is mostly talk.
Published: Saturday, September 5th, 2015 @ 10:14 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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State Rep. Rob Bryan plans to introduce legislation creating a pilot program transforming as many as five perpetually failing elementary schools into charter-like entities under a new Achievement School District with its own superintendent.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 5:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For many years, state education and political leaders promised increasing our "investment" in public schools was the key to raising student achievement for disadvantaged students.
Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2014 @ 8:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Imagine the important things in your life: your spouse, your home, your favorite football team. What do they all have in common? You were able to choose them, not have them assigned to you by the political class.
Published: Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 @ 12:27 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The great American ethic is that money will buy anything. It is particularly true in the political world. We try to buy everything from international friendship to better schools to votes to taxpayer support for some behavior that politicians believe we should embrace.
Published: Monday, January 6th, 2014 @ 11:47 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger and House Speaker Thom Tillis issued the following joint statement today in response to a lawsuit filed by the North Carolina affiliate of the national teachers’ union and a liberal special interest group.
Published: Thursday, December 12th, 2013 @ 12:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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