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The final of three debates on challenges facing North Carolina’s education system is slated for Wednesday evening, November 1, in Benson at the W. J. Barefoot Auditorium. This time experts will focus on education funding in North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, March 10th, 2024 @ 2:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Last week, the State Board of Education approved a resolution to move ahead with a framework to create a new way to license and pay teachers. Currently teachers are paid based on their years of experience.
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2022 @ 12:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lawmakers, union representatives, and government officials are calling for repeal of North Carolina’s prohibition on public-sector employee collective bargaining.
Published: Saturday, May 18th, 2019 @ 5:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In May, about 19,000 North Carolina teachers gathered in Raleigh to “Rally for Respect,” an event organized by the N.C. Association of Educators.
Published: Saturday, June 30th, 2018 @ 11:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The crowd was substantial. A little better turnout than I anticipated considering the weather. Some media estimates put it at 19,000, and if it was less than that, it probably wasn’t by much
Published: Wednesday, May 30th, 2018 @ 1:08 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The state's top legislative leaders say they're eager to talk to teachers gathering in Raleigh on Wednesday, May 16, about a 6.2 percent average pay raise they'll receive next year
Published: Saturday, May 19th, 2018 @ 2:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislators and policy experts agree that North Carolina teachers need more pay. They disagree on how to dole out the money
Published: Friday, October 27th, 2017 @ 3:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Opening day of the 2017-18 General Assembly was filled with warm greetings, friendly exchanges, and promises of compromise. After a short break, lawmakers have returned to get down to the real work of the session
Published: Tuesday, January 24th, 2017 @ 3:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. General Assembly's 2016-17 short session is over, the legislature has adjourned, and everyone is back in his or her district - either planning retirement or campaigning
Published: Thursday, July 28th, 2016 @ 10:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Republican-led General Assembly in the just-ended 2016 short session maintained spending restraint, created and enlarged fiscal safeguards in case of an economic downturn, granted more income tax relief
Published: Saturday, July 9th, 2016 @ 8:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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From the start, the Republican primary race between businesswoman Holly Grange and conservative activist and New Hanover County Board of Education member Tammy Covil has been a heated one.
Published: Thursday, March 3rd, 2016 @ 12:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the many things I like about North Carolina is a provision in the NC General Statutes that forbids collective bargaining by public employees. Thanks to that law, North Carolina public employee unions are, politically, relatively weak. In states without such laws, on the other hand, public...
Published: Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 @ 4:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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How can we differentiate the pay of teachers on the basis of their performance while also treating them fairly? This familiar education-policy debate used to play out at the Hood family dinner table.
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 1:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Education and health care are among the top campaign issues in House District 8, where Republican incumbent Susan Martin is seeking a second term against Democratic challenger Barbara D "Bobi" Gregory.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 7:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Are teachers receiving a pay increase?
Published: Wednesday, August 6th, 2014 @ 8:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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College and university faculty members have been among the most outspoken critics of private school scholarships for low-income children, measures to improve the quality of classroom teachers, and many other education reform initiatives passed by the Republican-led General Assembly.
Published: Wednesday, July 30th, 2014 @ 1:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina House released its budget plan for FY 2014-15, which would spend $21.09 billion. The total would be a 2.3 percent increase over the current fiscal year’s budget.
Published: Saturday, June 21st, 2014 @ 8:29 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A survey of nearly 900 academic studies from the past quarter-century shows North Carolina has been moving in the right direction on education reform in recent years. That's a key conclusion from a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report.
Published: Saturday, May 24th, 2014 @ 8:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Freshman state Rep. Dana Bumgardner of Gastonia and longtime Gaston County Commissioner Michael Allen "Mickey" Price of Belmont have similar platforms on education, tax reform, Medicaid, teacher tenure, and merit pay for teachers.
Published: Monday, May 5th, 2014 @ 4:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2012 Tea Party Republican Eddie Gallimore came within 505 votes of defeating incumbent Republican Sen. Stan Bingham for the opportunity to represent Davidson and Montgomery counties in the North Carolina Senate. But Gallimore didn't see his primary election defeat as the end of the line.
Published: Thursday, April 10th, 2014 @ 4:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Liberal politicians, left-wing activists, and the teacher union may not like it, but the North Carolina General Assembly is not about to abandon its reforms of teacher hiring, firing, and compensation. That's because the lawmakers who enacted them are familiar with the empirical research about what
Published: Monday, April 7th, 2014 @ 8:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Voters in the May 6 Republican primary for state House District 15 will choose between incumbent Phil Shepard, a two-term legislator who is a minister and civil service retiree, and Jim Morton, a farmer and retired educator running primarily on parochial issues.
Published: Sunday, April 6th, 2014 @ 10:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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No Mr. Chairman: An abject point of fact is that Beaufort County has never had a Republican majority of the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners.
Published: Sunday, April 6th, 2014 @ 10:47 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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If past is prologue, candidates challenging state Sen. Clark Jenkins in the upcoming Democratic primary might not have a prayer even though both are ordained ministers. Jenkins has proven during previous primary battles to be a formidable and well-financed candidate in Senate District 3, whose...
Published: Saturday, April 5th, 2014 @ 3:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In laying out its legal case against the state over elimination of teacher tenure, the North Carolina Association of Educators cites some of the same constitutional constructs of contract law that state employees used two decades ago to overturn the General Assembly's repeal of income tax exemptions
Published: Saturday, February 15th, 2014 @ 12:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Any political movement that can turn out tens of thousands of protesters on a chilly morning in February must be deemed impressive.
Published: Friday, February 14th, 2014 @ 11:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Big things were anticipated for higher education reform in 2013 - but the sizzle turned to fizzle in many cases. Landmark court decisions got pushed off for another year, bubbles didn't quite burst, MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) did not take over vast swaths of the higher education...
Published: Saturday, December 28th, 2013 @ 1:24 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) and House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg) issued the following joint statement today in response to yet another frivolous lawsuit filed by the North Carolina affiliate of the national teachers’ union.
Published: Tuesday, December 17th, 2013 @ 1:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Jokes about "Polacks" have always been tasteless and silly. Based on the latest international test scores, trying to get a laugh today by portraying Polish people as ignorant or dumb is a good way to identify yourself as, well, ignorant or dumb.
Published: Friday, December 6th, 2013 @ 1:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since the General Assembly adjourned in late July, I have been out in the district talking with educators and students.
Published: Saturday, November 23rd, 2013 @ 8:39 am
By: Bill Cook
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