The House K-12 Education committee OK'd the statewide school construction bond bill, but questioned the formula used to decide how much each county would get for school construction
Published: Sunday, March 10th, 2019 @ 12:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper's $25.2 billion budget proposal would add nearly $1.3 billion in new spending over last year - an increase of 5.4 percent
Published: Saturday, March 9th, 2019 @ 10:56 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Cyber attackers are increasingly targeting K-12 schools, leading to an urgent need for more cyber security, says Phil Emer, director of Technology Planning and Policy at the N.C. State University Friday Institute
Published: Saturday, March 10th, 2018 @ 11:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Improving School Accountability In North Carolina
Published: Saturday, December 31st, 2016 @ 11:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Homeschooling is the maverick among North Carolina's K-12 options. Since its launch three decades ago, homeschooling has bucked convention and stumped prognosticators
Published: Thursday, December 29th, 2016 @ 10:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There are many reasons for North Carolinians to be proud of the statewide education reforms implemented over the last five years.
Published: Friday, October 14th, 2016 @ 12:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As school begins this fall, East Carolina University will play a major role in training health educators in K-12 schools across the state.
Published: Monday, September 12th, 2016 @ 8:08 am
By: ECU News Services
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McCrory campaign manager Russell Peck released the following statement in response to Roy Cooper's newly released education plan.
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2016 @ 7:30 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) has joined a bipartisan group of Senators to designate the week of January 24-30, 2016 as "National School Choice Week" and recognize that a diversity of choices in K-12 education helps meet the individual needs and strengths of children.
Published: Friday, January 29th, 2016 @ 9:22 pm
By: Chris Downey
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In what is evolving into a war of words and political philosophies, Gov. Pat McCrory said he would pursue what Attorney General Roy Cooper would not - formal opposition to a Virginia transgender student's lawsuit that could force North Carolina to allow both sexes to use the same K-12 public...
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican legislative leaders finally unveiled their proposed biennial state budget. (Geez, it's about time, folks.) The budget is now subject to votes by each legislative chamber and action by Governor McCrory.
Published: Friday, October 2nd, 2015 @ 4:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After nearly eight months of lengthy and heated discussion, Republican leaders in the North Carolina Senate and House have come to a consensus on a $21.7 billion state budget for the next two years. Since education comprises the single biggest item in the state budget, there is a lot of interest...
Published: Monday, September 21st, 2015 @ 12:16 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Although I agree that other parts of the House budget are problematic, their K-12 education budget includes additional funding for a number of promising initiatives and research-based programs. Clearly, the Republican leadership recognizes that boosting student performance requires targeted...
Published: Monday, June 15th, 2015 @ 4:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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N.C. House Republicans are voting this week on their 2015-17 biennial budget proposal. School-based personnel are among the big winners.
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 9:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A State Board of Education task force may scrap longstanding end-of-grade tests for a system of interim assessments designed to provide more reliable and immediate data to identify students who need help in core subject areas.
Published: Thursday, April 16th, 2015 @ 4:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory spoke with teachers from throughout the state today for a meeting of his Teacher Advisory Committee, a committee re-established in September 2013 to address the needs of North Carolina K-12 teachers and students.
Published: Sunday, March 15th, 2015 @ 1:17 pm
By: Chris Downey
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The bottom line is that the governor's budget would increase K-12 education spending by 2.8 percent or $235 million more than the 2014-15 budget.
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2015 @ 11:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The taxpayers of North Carolina have historically made a tremendous commitment to education, and the next biennium will continue that legacy. More than 54 percent, or over $12 billion of our General Fund spending will be directed to education in each year of the biennium.
Published: Saturday, March 7th, 2015 @ 3:08 am
By: Chris Downey
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Last week, the News & Observer published an op-ed by Angela Scioli, a history teacher at Leesville Road High School in Raleigh and founder of Red4EdNC. The piece took aim at the Republican-led legislature for "no longer investing in our students." One of her main points was that things were so muc
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 10:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This is National School Choice Week and there are many reasons to celebrate this modest but important idea. School choice is based on a simple truth: Parents know their children better than anyone else. As such, parents - not the government - should control their children's education and where...
Published: Friday, February 13th, 2015 @ 4:40 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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For years, North Carolina policymakers have stressed the importance of increasing K-12 teacher production and retention rates. Teacher shortages and high attrition rates in rural and low-income areas and in fields such as secondary math and science and special education have prompted many...
Published: Sunday, February 1st, 2015 @ 8:42 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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What better way to begin 2015 than to discuss per-pupil expenditures for our K-12 public schools? According to the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, the state increased its average expenditure by around $200 a student for the 2014-2015 school year. At this time next year we will be able to...
Published: Wednesday, January 21st, 2015 @ 9:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor McCrory released the following statement after today's University of North Carolina Board of Governors Meeting...
Published: Saturday, January 17th, 2015 @ 6:33 pm
By: Chris Downey
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During each legislative session, education is at the forefront of budget and policy discussions. Expenditures on elementary, secondary, and higher education (the University of North Carolina system plus the community college system) added up to more than $11.5 billion last year, or 58 percent of the
Published: Thursday, January 15th, 2015 @ 12:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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During each legislative session, education is at the forefront of budget and policy discussions. Expenditures on elementary, secondary, and higher education (the University of North Carolina plus the community college system) added up to more than $11.5 billion last year, or 58 percent of the North
Published: Friday, January 9th, 2015 @ 10:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Kenneth Wainstein’s report, “Investigation of Irregular Classes in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,” detailed a long history of academic fraud at North Carolina’s flagship public university.
Published: Tuesday, November 25th, 2014 @ 7:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Nothing undercuts the enjoyment of watching football (Go Steelers!) on a Sunday afternoon more than tiresome political ads, particularly those pro-Kay Hagan ads that employ "political sleight of hand" to substantiate claims of funding cuts to public education in North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, October 5th, 2014 @ 4:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is an election year, and that means our televisions and radio are littered with campaign ads. Advertisements try to persuade you to vote for candidates based upon their morals, past experience, community involvement, and ability to influence or pass legislation.
Published: Monday, September 22nd, 2014 @ 10:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When the Common Core state standards for K-12 were rolled out in 2009, few foresaw the impact on higher education. Alarms about the takeover of the entire educational system with the new national standards and tests in math and English language arts were often dismissed.
Published: Friday, September 19th, 2014 @ 10:34 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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You may have missed the media hoopla (ha!), but between FY 2010-11 and FY 2014-15, state appropriations for the K-12 education budget grew by more than $1 billion in nominal dollars.
Published: Tuesday, August 19th, 2014 @ 10:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I have been discussing teacher pay rankings for years. In fact, three years ago I wrote a newsletter piece titled, Education spending in North Carolina: The ranking problem. In that piece, I outlined the major problems associated with the National Education Association (NEA) rankings of teacher...
Published: Sunday, August 3rd, 2014 @ 9:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory joined the governors of Maryland, Mississippi, Oregon and Virginia today in a bipartisan call for federal support of E-Learning opportunities.
Published: Tuesday, June 24th, 2014 @ 1:20 am
By: Christopher Maye
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