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Leandro plaintiffs are asking the state Supreme Court to reject a petition from state legislative leaders. Top lawmakers want the high court to take another look at the long-running education funding lawsuit.
Published: Saturday, January 27th, 2024 @ 7:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Plaintiffs and the N.C. Justice Department both object to new motions at the N.C. Supreme Court in the Leandro education funding lawsuit. The motions ask the court to address unresolved Leandro issues.
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 12:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In a 4-3 party-line vote, with Democrats in the majority, the N.C. Supreme Court is endorsing a court-ordered plan to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars out of the state treasury. The money would address the Leandro education funding lawsuit.
Published: Monday, December 5th, 2022 @ 9:57 am
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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The N.C. Supreme Court questioned lawyers on both sides of a dispute over $785 million in additional education spending tied to the Leandro school funding lawsuit.
Published: Sunday, September 4th, 2022 @ 6:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Saturday, September 3rd, 2022 @ 8:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A day before Wednesday's arguments in the Leandro case, justices voted along party lines to reject lawmakers' request to drop the plaintiffs Earls represented.
Published: Saturday, September 3rd, 2022 @ 12:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Talks continue between both the N.C. House and Senate with no imminent solution on Medicaid expansion.
Published: Sunday, August 28th, 2022 @ 9:21 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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Parties in the long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit are submitting final briefs ahead of Aug. 31 N.C. Supreme Court oral arguments in the case.
Published: Monday, August 15th, 2022 @ 1:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court agrees to extend oral arguments in the Leandro case from 60 minutes to 90 minutes.
Published: Tuesday, August 9th, 2022 @ 9:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Parties in the Leandro school funding lawsuit agree they need more time to argue before the N.C. Supreme Court on Aug. 31.
Published: Saturday, August 6th, 2022 @ 6:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The John Locke Foundation and N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law label a proposed forced money transfer in the Leandro case "unconstitutional."
Published: Friday, August 5th, 2022 @ 4:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The NC Chamber's general counsel claims a group of state "business leaders" misrepresented the Chamber chair's role in the Leandro school funding case.
Published: Friday, August 5th, 2022 @ 2:13 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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Plaintiffs in the Leandro school funding lawsuit want Republican N.C. Supreme Court Justice Phil Berger Jr. to recuse himself from the case.
Published: Wednesday, July 20th, 2022 @ 5:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative leaders urge N.C. Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls to step away from the Leandro school funding lawsuit. They cite Earls' previous work in the case.
Published: Sunday, July 17th, 2022 @ 7:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina's Leandro school funding lawsuit returns to the N.C. Supreme Court on Aug. 31.
Published: Wednesday, July 13th, 2022 @ 12:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Plaintiffs in the Leandro education funding lawsuit say a judge was wrong to scrap a court order forcing government officials to transfer money from the state treasury.
Published: Sunday, July 10th, 2022 @ 9:01 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The judge in North Carolina’s long-running Leandro school funding legal dispute calls for state government to spend an additional $785 million on education-related items.
Published: Wednesday, May 4th, 2022 @ 1:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The judge overseeing North Carolina’s long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit signaled Friday that he will produce an order next week calling for additional state education spending.
Published: Wednesday, April 27th, 2022 @ 10:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court is giving the new judge overseeing North Carolina’s long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit another seven days to issue his ruling. The high court granted the judge’s request for additional time in an order Wednesday.
Published: Friday, April 22nd, 2022 @ 10:24 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The new judge overseeing North Carolina’s long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit wants another seven days to issue his ruling. He asked the N.C. Supreme Court Tuesday to grant him another week to consider the case.
Published: Thursday, April 21st, 2022 @ 12:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A new filing in the long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit would lop another $25 million off of the cost of court-ordered education spending.
Published: Tuesday, April 19th, 2022 @ 5:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A Democrat-controlled N.C. Supreme Court could end up deciding the constitutionality of a $1.7-billion transfer ordered by the presiding judge in the long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit.
Published: Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 @ 10:10 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State Attorney General Josh Stein’s office is willing to go along with a delay in implementing a $1.7 billion school funding order. A court filing from Stein’s office Tuesday morning marked the latest development in the long-running Leandro lawsuit.
Published: Monday, December 13th, 2021 @ 8:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Our legal team has reviewed Judge Lee's order, and because of the Attorney General's conflict, we have requested and received authorization to pursue outside counsel for this matter.
Published: Tuesday, December 7th, 2021 @ 11:46 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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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 top N.C. Senate education leader is criticizing Attorney General Josh Stein for his handling of the state’s defense in the long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit.
Published: Wednesday, December 1st, 2021 @ 11:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A bill sponsored by Democrats in the N.C. House would pump billions of additional dollars into public education over the next few years toward meeting the requirements of a new remedial agreement in the ongoing Leandro lawsuit.
Published: Monday, May 31st, 2021 @ 11:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Superior Court Judge David Lee, the presiding jurist in the decades-long Leandro lawsuit, said at a hearing Tuesday, April 13 that he won’t tell lawmakers how to spend money on public education.
Published: Wednesday, April 21st, 2021 @ 2:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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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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"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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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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