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Cumberland County Superior Court Judge James Ammons will take over North Carolina's long-running Leandro education funding case.
Published: Tuesday, January 17th, 2023 @ 9:46 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the Leandro case on August 31
Published: Monday, September 5th, 2022 @ 8:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Students have a right to a sound basic education. It is hard to argue with that. But who decides what that looks like in a 2022 action plan for today and tomorrow’s N.C. school kids?
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 1:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Leandro school funding lawsuit returns to the N.C. Supreme Court Aug. 31 for oral arguments. The case dates back to 1994.
Published: Friday, August 19th, 2022 @ 12:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative leaders and Leandro plaintiffs offer contrasting arguments to the N.C. Supreme Court in the latest stage of the long-running education funding lawsuit.
Published: Friday, August 5th, 2022 @ 5:28 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The former presiding jurist in the Leandro school funding case says the current struggles facing public schools in North Carolina are more about a breakdown in classroom instruction than a lack of funding.
Published: Sunday, April 17th, 2022 @ 8:05 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The fight over $1.7 billion in court-ordered N.C. education spending is heading to a new judge. Court records confirm that the long-running legal case known as Leandro is heading to Special Superior Court Judge Michael Robinson.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 8:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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One line in a new court order could mark a major new development in the long-running legal battle over education funding in North Carolina. The line strikes at the heart of a constitutional dispute about $1.7 billion that has reached the state’s highest court.
Published: Monday, March 28th, 2022 @ 2:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A retired Union County judge is trying to leapfrog the Republican-led N.C. General Assembly by ordering a $1.7 billion transfer from the state’s coffers to fund public education.
Published: Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 @ 6:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The original judge in North Carolina’s long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit disputes the notion that a judge can force other government actors to spend more money on education.
Published: Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 @ 5:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A plan for North Carolina to provide an opportunity for a sound, basic education to all students now waits with a judge in Superior Court.
Published: Thursday, March 18th, 2021 @ 10:06 am
By: Carolina Journal
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I spent several days with three students who are, by mandate from the governor and the Mecklenburg County school board, learning at home.
Published: Sunday, October 11th, 2020 @ 11:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Judge David Lee, the overseer of the Leandro case, approved a plan Tuesday, Sept. 1, calling for millions more in education spending to meet North Carolina’s constitutional obligation to provide a sound, basic education to every child.
Published: Thursday, September 3rd, 2020 @ 3:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Judge Howard Manning oversaw the Leandro v. State of North Carolina case for decades.
Published: Sunday, August 30th, 2020 @ 11:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Earlier this week, Judge David Lee convened a status conference with the plaintiffs and defendants from the ongoing Leandro v. State of North Carolina lawsuit.
Published: Saturday, January 25th, 2020 @ 9:43 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Twenty-five years ago, Robert Leandro and his mother, Kathleen Leandro, lent their name to one of the most significant education lawsuits in North Carolina history.
Published: Tuesday, January 21st, 2020 @ 11:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If we are going to fix education in North Carolina, we must be willing to try something new.
Published: Sunday, December 22nd, 2019 @ 10:09 am
By: Lindalyn Kakadelis
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Supporters of higher taxes cheered the WestEd report on North Carolina schools that became public on December 10th, five months after Judge David Lee received it.
Published: Wednesday, December 18th, 2019 @ 11:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state funding targets that likely will be outlined in the WestEd report are anybody’s guess.
Published: Thursday, December 5th, 2019 @ 3:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Another chapter may soon be added to North Carolina’s long-running school finance case known as Leandro v. State.
Published: Friday, November 15th, 2019 @ 9:37 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Erik Root, an executive with the Roger Bacon Academy charter school management organization, raises doubts about the claim oft-repeated claims that public charter schools harm their district school competition.
Published: Friday, September 20th, 2019 @ 8:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Education stakeholders have long puzzled over how to implement the standards laid out in the decades-old Leandro case.
Published: Sunday, August 11th, 2019 @ 6:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On July 25, 2017, Governor Roy Cooper announced the creation of the Commission on Access to Sound Basic Education.
Published: Friday, July 5th, 2019 @ 9:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Leandro" is the name of the lead plaintiff in Leandro v. State of North Carolina, a 1994 lawsuit that centers on the state's constitutional duty to provide a "sound basic education" to all public school students.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2019 @ 10:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper has reconfigured the N.C. Court of Appeals into an 8-7 Democratic majority with his latest two appointments.
Published: Wednesday, May 8th, 2019 @ 11:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Court Gives the State More Time to Pay $730 Million Judgment in Lawsuit over School Technology FundsA Wake County Superior Court judge signed a consent order giving the state more time to pay a nearly $730 million judgment in a lawsuit over school technology funds
Published: Monday, March 11th, 2019 @ 9:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. School Board Association and school districts are suing several state agencies to extend a 2008 court order
Published: Monday, August 13th, 2018 @ 5:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The landmark Leandro case may be short one defendant if a Superior Court judge grants the State Board of Education's motion to withdraw from the case
Published: Tuesday, February 20th, 2018 @ 7:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After two decades, the parties involved in the landmark Leandro v. North Carolina lawsuit have filed a joint court motion asking an independent consultant to help enforce a state Supreme Court order guaranteeing a quality education to every North Carolina student
Published: Friday, July 28th, 2017 @ 4:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A State Highway Patrol trooper's hat worth $50 lost almost seven years ago has evolved into a closely watched case about the conditions under which state employees can be fired. And despite a December ruling by the state's highest court, the matter remains far from settled.
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2016 @ 3:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The city of Asheville and customers living outside the city who rely on Asheville for their drinking water long have had a contentious relationship. The issue was again before the state's second highest court in October, this time over whether a law passed in 2013 taking control of the water...
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 11:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In recent years, advocates on the left and right have advanced reforms designed to improve low-performing public schools in North Carolina
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 6:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a 4-3 decision, the NC Supreme Court ruled that the Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides vouchers to low-income families, is constitutional. Obviously I am pleased with the outcome, but I am even happier about the timing. The expected release date for the next batch of Supreme Court...
Published: Friday, September 11th, 2015 @ 3:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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NCGOP Chairman Hasan Harnett today sent a letter to Attorney General Roy Cooper demanding he complies with the state public records law and begin releasing documents requested by the North Carolina Republican Party regarding his 14-year record as attorney general.
Published: Friday, July 24th, 2015 @ 10:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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