Finally. The Republican conference budget proposal was finally released earlier today. I’m sure readers are aware of the infighting among Republican lawmakers regarding casino legislation and Medicaid expansion.
Published: Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 @ 12:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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School bells are ringing across North Carolina. Children are having backpacks blessed. Seniors are driving decorated cars around neighborhoods to the school parking lot. Excitement rises as the back-to-school rituals crank up.
Published: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 8:02 am
By: Lib Campbell
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family has lived in US for ten years, has two US citizen children
Published: Monday, September 25th, 2023 @ 9:50 pm
By: John Steed
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Gov. Cooper’s decision to declare a “state of emergency” for public education lacks justification and widespread public support
Published: Tuesday, September 12th, 2023 @ 8:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A program that helped 1.6 million children get healthy food for the last three years is coming to an end, NCDHHS announced today.
Published: Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 @ 8:33 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Denies public schools are teaching Critical Race Theory, teachers are grooming and indoctrinating students, public schools push a woke agenda.
Published: Tuesday, April 18th, 2023 @ 1:45 am
By: Daily Wire
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Legislation to significantly expand education savings accounts in North Carolina—or ESAs, as they are commonly known—was introduced in the General Assembly earlier this week.
Published: Sunday, April 2nd, 2023 @ 9:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) laid out the message that he wants to convey to Americans — ahead of a potential 2024 presidential bid — that the vision that the left is selling to Americans is one of grievances.
Published: Monday, March 6th, 2023 @ 9:10 am
By: Daily Wire
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devout Christian is lawylering up against "woke"
Published: Thursday, February 2nd, 2023 @ 9:43 am
By: John Steed
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Last year North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper raised a lot of eyebrows when he issued a proclamation celebrating January 23rd to 29th 2022, as School Choice Week in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, February 1st, 2023 @ 9:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Government is best and most responsive to the individual when it is closest to them. We're talking about the local, the county, and even the state level.
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2022 @ 9:23 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The first occurs during ages 2-7, with a second one occurring during adolescence. At the start of these periods, the number of connections (synapses) between brain cells (neurons) doubles.
Published: Tuesday, September 13th, 2022 @ 9:32 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Both options have enrollment that compares with some of the state's largest districts.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 9:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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School bells are ringing across North Carolina. And the wheels on the yellow bus go ‘round and ‘round. Something feels right with the world when the normalcy of school days begins.
Published: Thursday, August 25th, 2022 @ 12:44 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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Bells are ringing across North Carolina as some 1.5 million children start another school year. Can you remember your back-to-school experiences?
Published: Thursday, August 18th, 2022 @ 9:00 am
By: Tom Campbell
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It is no secret how important this fall election is here in Beaufort County. School board members across the country are getting unseated due to allowing wokeness curriculums into our schools by not standing up.
Published: Thursday, August 18th, 2022 @ 12:27 am
By: Donald Shreve
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Northampton County is the only majority-choice county in North Carolina, with 57% enrolled in private, home, and public charter schools
Published: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022 @ 9:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Arizona lawmakers passed a groundbreaking bill last week allowing the State’s 1.1 million students — from kindergarten to high school graduation — access to a school of their choice.
Published: Sunday, July 10th, 2022 @ 2:35 am
By: Daily Wire
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Our Mission: To promote traditional, conservative values for the Beaufort County school system and support school board members and candidates that will uphold these values.
Published: Friday, July 8th, 2022 @ 1:14 pm
By: Gary Carlton
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The 48 members of a new Parent Advisory Committee have been announced.
Published: Wednesday, June 29th, 2022 @ 9:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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Public and private schools funded
Published: Saturday, May 7th, 2022 @ 6:04 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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The John Locke Foundation believes it is the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of our children.
Published: Monday, May 2nd, 2022 @ 5:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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That nod to the famous line from Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist may be what some Wake County commissioners are thinking after learning that Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) Superintendent Cathy Moore is asking Wake County Commissioners for approximately $600 million
Published: Monday, April 25th, 2022 @ 2:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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50 Conservative Lawmakers from Across the State Believe Ted Budd is the Best Choice for North Carolina
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 @ 12:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A new poll from a national advocacy group shows 72% of registered voters support the concept of school choice, a big leap from when the COVID-19 pandemic began.
Published: Thursday, March 3rd, 2022 @ 11:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Earlier this week the State Superintendent Catherine Truitt announced her office was seeking applicants to serve on a New 48- member Parent Advisory Commission to “elevate the voice of parents in students’ education.”
Published: Thursday, March 3rd, 2022 @ 11:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Public schools have long been under the microscope and deservedly so, since they receive a large amount of our tax dollars and involve our most precious assets - our children
Published: Thursday, February 17th, 2022 @ 11:28 am
By: Tom Campbell
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North Carolina’s largest school district continues to feel the impact of pandemic-related reductions in its student population, and those impacts will be felt for at around a decade, according to a report presented to the Wake County Board of Education on Wednesday, Feb. 9.
Published: Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 @ 10:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Public Schools in N.C. Lose Students to Private, Charter, Home Schools
Published: Monday, February 7th, 2022 @ 1:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new survey from the nonprofit organization National School Choice Week shows that 52% of parents said they were considering — or considered in the past year — choosing a new or different school for their children.
Published: Monday, January 17th, 2022 @ 8:15 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A new poll by Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina provides more good news for school choice supporters in the Tar Heel state. The survey polled 500 likely voters on a variety of school choice issues.
Published: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 @ 2:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Outgoing N.C. Health Secretary Mandy Cohen told lawmakers recently that schools could still close in the event of a COVID infection surge this winter.
Published: Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021 @ 5:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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