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School Board Meeting Deficiencies Need To Be Fixed
Published: Monday, January 27th, 2025 @ 8:51 am
By: Dave Hudson
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 poll sponsored by a school-choice advocacy organization shows support for educational choice nationwide has increased to a new level of 71% of registered voters.
Published: Friday, April 9th, 2021 @ 10:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Public school systems in the Tar Heel State are experiencing the highest declines in student enrollment in decades.
Published: Monday, March 8th, 2021 @ 10:16 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As North Carolina prepares to celebrate National School Choice Week Jan. 24-30, the cause of educational freedom could see even more advancement during the North Carolina General Assembly’s 2021-2022 session.
Published: Thursday, January 21st, 2021 @ 7:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Richard Weaver’s famous book “Ideas have Consequences” has a pithy and poignant title.
Published: Thursday, November 12th, 2020 @ 12:35 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Catherine Truitt’s victory over Jen Mangrum for State Superintendent of Public Instruction was certainly one of the most significant and surprising Republican victories on Tuesday evening.
Published: Thursday, November 5th, 2020 @ 8:47 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Over the past decade school choice has expanded across North Carolina.
Published: Monday, August 31st, 2020 @ 3:19 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The coronavirus recession, the Great Lockdown, and the Great Suppression are all terms used to describe the global economic downturn produced by COVID-19 mitigation measures.
Published: Saturday, May 9th, 2020 @ 10:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Last week Gov. Roy Cooper extended the closure of all public schools in North Carolina through May 15 via executive order. Among other things, Cooper said the extension is necessary to promote public health and safety in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
Published: Tuesday, March 31st, 2020 @ 9:59 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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As we reach the midpoint in this year's National School Choice Week (NSCW), we should reflect on how far we have come and what is next for school choice in North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, February 9th, 2020 @ 8:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The John Locke Foundation is kicking off National School Choice Week with a talk from Robert Luddy, the creator of several charter and private schools in North Carolina.
Published: Monday, January 27th, 2020 @ 3:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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At a rally at Clark University in Atlanta, Senator Elizabeth Warren was continually interrupted by chants of “Our Children, Our Choice” by parents who opposed Warren’s plan to end federal funding for charter schools and wore T-shirts that read, “Powerful Parents Network.”
Published: Tuesday, November 26th, 2019 @ 7:37 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Under the Forest administration, North Carolina’s public schools will be flexible enough to adapt to the demands of the modern economy while boosting academic performance.
Published: Friday, November 8th, 2019 @ 12:43 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Tom Campbell's opinion piece, "We are re-segregating our schools," blames charter schools for "re-segregating" district schools. Using the term segregation, associated with the Jim Crow era ending 65 years ago, is intentional.
Published: Friday, August 9th, 2019 @ 5:30 am
By: Lindalyn Kakadelis
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I'm not surprised that the editors of the News & Observer blame the N.C. General Assembly for the migration of students from districts to charter, home, and private schools.
Published: Tuesday, July 30th, 2019 @ 9:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I grew up in the “separate but equal” school era, although we knew Black schools weren’t equal. The 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education, ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
Published: Thursday, July 25th, 2019 @ 7:53 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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