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"The Trump administration is taking bold action to break up the federal education bureaucracy and return education to the states.”
Published: Wednesday, November 26th, 2025 @ 2:55 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Tennessee lawmakers are looking at rejecting federal dollars for public education and replacing them with state dollars in a move that would make Tennessee the first in the nation to turn down federal education funding.
Published: Sunday, October 8th, 2023 @ 8:19 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) filed a federal complaint with the Department of Education’s civil rights division after a teenage girl said that her school allowed a male who identified as female to shower alongside four teenage girls in a locker room.
Published: Wednesday, July 5th, 2023 @ 7:59 am
By: Daily Wire
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Educate the way they want not what is dictated
Published: Saturday, February 11th, 2023 @ 6:43 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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A federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama faced backlash this week for issuing a preliminary injunction against a law signed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that targets woke indoctrination in higher education.
Published: Saturday, November 26th, 2022 @ 6:58 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Constitution has been abused in so many ways. For example, where in the Constitution is the federal government given a brief to do anything whatsoever about schools? It's not there. Why do we have a federal Department of Education?
Published: Friday, July 15th, 2022 @ 11:45 am
By: Raynor James
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U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and the republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee expanded their ongoing probe into the federal government’s policing of school board meetings to include the Department of Education.
Published: Thursday, February 3rd, 2022 @ 4:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Joy Pullmann of the Federalist places today’s debates over civics education in context.
Published: Monday, July 12th, 2021 @ 3:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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More than half (55 percent) of parents believe the $190 billion in federal covid-relief funding allocated to U.S. K-12 schools is an appropriate amount
Published: Monday, May 24th, 2021 @ 4:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The federal CARES Act set aside $2,953,230,000 for governors to use to support educational institutions affected by COVID-19 closures.
Published: Friday, June 19th, 2020 @ 2:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University's FoodMASTER program has received a $1.18 million federal grant to help six universities create teaching models that pair health-promotion programs with science education
Published: Tuesday, September 26th, 2017 @ 3:49 am
By: ECU News Services
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Which North Carolina political party has increased the education budget by more than $1.1 billion since 2011? Answer: the Republicans.
Published: Friday, November 25th, 2016 @ 2:54 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Bipartisan agreement can be hard to find these days in Washington.
Published: Wednesday, October 5th, 2016 @ 11:45 am
By: jonah
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A federal bill that would require colleges and universities to provide applicants information about the costs and returns of higher education was approved on Monday by the U.S. House of Representatives.
Published: Monday, August 29th, 2016 @ 4:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Hyper-aggressive federal officials have taken the vague language in Title IX of the 1972 Education Act Amendments and treated it as if it gave them plenary authority to control anything on a college campus having in any way to do with sexual misbehavior
Published: Saturday, August 27th, 2016 @ 9:32 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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This week in North Carolina, the Burr campaign will highlight Senator Burr's work to provide states with more federal funding so they can decide on the most effective ways to help students receive a quality education and to give teachers the resources they need to educate the next generation
Published: Friday, July 22nd, 2016 @ 5:03 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Last month, the National Education Association released "Rankings of the States 2015 and Estimates of School Statistics 2016." "Rankings and Estimates" is a useful publication for its per pupil expenditure and teacher pay rankings
Published: Sunday, June 5th, 2016 @ 2:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Members of a state legislative panel are concerned that a new federal education law could keep in place controversial Common Core educational standards that dictate to states how students are taught and what they must learn.
Published: Sunday, April 10th, 2016 @ 11:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Standing alongside some of North Carolina's most influential black elected officials at Hillside High School, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton promised Thursday to shred barriers to minority achievement, protect voting rights, and partner with schools to improve education.
Published: Sunday, March 13th, 2016 @ 10:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Public and private universities in the United States are regulated to the nth degree
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2016 @ 2:23 am
By: John William Pope Center
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More military veterans are choosing to make North Carolina their home, thanks, in part, to efforts by Governor Pat McCrory to make North Carolina the most veteran friendly state in the nation.
Published: Sunday, January 31st, 2016 @ 1:19 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Years of federally driven testing reform and a botched rollout of sweeping, federally incentivized standards have tried the patience of the American people
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2015 @ 2:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Common Core Standards is a private and federal initiative to reform public education into one that spits out workers, not thinkers
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 11:01 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The federal government spends more money each year than it collects in taxes and other revenue. That means annual spending deficits. Each deficit drives up the federal debt. Nick Dranias, president and executive director of the Compact for America Educational Foundation, has an interesting idea...
Published: Wednesday, May 27th, 2015 @ 10:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The federal government spends more money each year than it collects in taxes and other revenue. That means annual spending deficits. Each deficit drives up the federal debt. Nick Dranias, president and executive director of the Compact for America Educational Foundation, has an interesting idea for
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 7:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today the release of a new NC4VETS printed resource guide and new updated website that focuses on federal VA benefits as well as opportunities for employment, education, health care, housing and personal services for North Carolina veterans.
Published: Sunday, May 24th, 2015 @ 3:13 am
By: Chris Downey
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U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced legislation to ensure that veterans, students serving in the armed forces, and their qualifying dependents, can take full advantage of the federal education benefits they have earned for themselves and their families.
Published: Wednesday, May 13th, 2015 @ 12:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Gov. Pat McCrory yesterday released his budget proposal for the next biennium. In odd-numbered years like this one, the legislature passes a two-year budget plan, and the following year will make adjustments to the second year of the plan.
Published: Saturday, March 14th, 2015 @ 8:17 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Not all students can obtain federal loans for college because some community colleges do not participate in the federal lending program.
Published: Tuesday, September 16th, 2014 @ 6:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory met with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) officials today to request funding for North Carolina’s initiative to provide Wi-Fi access to every K – 12 classroom in the state.
Published: Sunday, June 15th, 2014 @ 11:22 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Good constitutional structures are necessary, but not sufficient, to protect the American system of government. The nation needs civic virtue as well. That's the argument Robert George put forward in the 2014 John W. Pope Lecture at N.C. State University. George is McCormick professor of...
Published: Monday, May 19th, 2014 @ 8:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Until the mid-60s, the federal government had almost nothing to do with higher education, with college benefits for veterans under the GI Bill being the exception. But with the passage of the Higher Education Act, the government got massively into the student aid business.
Published: Monday, May 19th, 2014 @ 1:30 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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