NCGOP Chairman Hasan Harnett released the following statement in response to the endorsement of Roy Cooper by labor union bosses...
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2016 @ 7:40 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Now that the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) has defied an audit mandated by state law, what happens next?
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 11:54 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Neither the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) nor the Office of the State Auditor is any stranger to media attention. Between the NCAE's dues check off litigation and the State Auditor's recent report on corruption at DHHS, both organizations have seen their share of the limelight...
Published: Thursday, June 4th, 2015 @ 4:36 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Kay Hagan's campaign and its trolls are all over social media trumpeting a report published in the Greensboro News & Record that says North Carolina "ranks as worst state for teachers."
Published: Friday, October 3rd, 2014 @ 1:42 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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As part of a campaign to inform employees and union workers of their rights, the Civitas Institute will be educating North Carolina teachers and other school employees about how they can give themselves an average $450 a year pay increase by leaving the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE)
Published: Saturday, August 9th, 2014 @ 1:26 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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As the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) holds its "School's Out" rally, the Civitas Institute puts the spotlight on the gulf between teacher's salaries and NCAE executives' salaries.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 9:06 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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In February, I published a column titled, "Data Do Not Reflect Claims of Teacher Dissatisfaction," which pointed out that state and national data disagree with those who claim that the teaching profession is increasingly constrained and unhappy.
Published: Tuesday, June 17th, 2014 @ 6:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The leader of the state Senate promised fast action to appeal a Wake County Superior Court judge's decision halting the General Assembly's plans to end teacher tenure. Meantime, the head of the state's largest teacher association, which brought the lawsuit challenging the end of career status, was d
Published: Tuesday, May 20th, 2014 @ 2:46 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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This article is Part I of a two-part series examining how North Carolina's public school system pays its teachers.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 3:28 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Teachers finding their schedules packed with testing would get relief from education reforms promised by Gov. Pat McCrory and top Republican lawmakers, who say students would benefit from a streamlined list of required state and local exams.
Published: Tuesday, March 18th, 2014 @ 4:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Do other professions require their "best" employees to give up an accomplishment to get a raise?
Published: Saturday, March 1st, 2014 @ 3:59 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Why does the Left oppose school choice? It can't be because they oppose tax dollars going to private, even faith-based institutions. For decades, state and federal subsidies have flowed to private colleges and universities, including sectarian institutions. For decades, Medicare and Medicaid...
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 1:53 am
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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The Institute for Justice has joined the school choice fight in North Carolina. The Arlington, Va.-based libertarian legal defense group is representing parents of North Carolina children seeking to defend the state's recently enacted Opportunity Scholarship Program, often referred to as vouchers.
Published: Saturday, February 15th, 2014 @ 1:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Liberal activist organizations are challenging two new laws. In North Carolina Association of Educators, et al, v. The State of North Carolina, the state's teachers union challenged recent changes to North Carolina's tenure (aka "career status") law.
Published: Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 @ 1:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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The state's largest teachers organization along with the left-of-center N.C. Justice Center have filed a lawsuit challenging the private school voucher program passed by the 2013 General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Pat McCrory.
Published: Saturday, December 14th, 2013 @ 10:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The NCAE, the North Carolina affiliate of the national teachers' union, is spearheading a political protest during instructional time at public schools across the state Monday, encouraging crowds of protesters to enter schools as soon as the morning bell rings.
Published: Monday, November 4th, 2013 @ 10:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The state's largest teachers group - the N.C. Association of Educators - is saying that it is not connected to a proposed Nov.
Published: Friday, November 1st, 2013 @ 6:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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News outlets and the blogosphere have been filled with stories and opinions concerning the so-called "Walk In" being staged Monday in support of teachers and our schools.
Published: Thursday, October 31st, 2013 @ 11:20 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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At least one North Carolina elementary school is soliciting volunteers over the internet to watch students while teachers walk out of their classrooms to participate in a politically-motivated one-hour strike next week.
Published: Wednesday, October 30th, 2013 @ 10:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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With a wink and a nod, the left-wing media continues to help push the deceptive agenda of the teachers union (NCAE) in the Tar Heel State. It is readily apparent that neither the NCAE nor the media support real educational reform in North Carolina.
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 4:38 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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You've heard the spin from the right and the left regarding this session of the General Assembly, but little from centrists. I don't claim to speak for all them all, but I call myself one and think I can provide some insights into what moderates want.
Published: Friday, August 2nd, 2013 @ 1:44 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The N&O is presenting the surprising, shocking news that the NC Association of Educators is upset with GOP gubernatorial nominee -- and general election frontrunner -- Pat McCrory.
Published: Monday, October 1st, 2012 @ 12:21 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The 2012 short session of the General Assembly saw some proposed reforms to the public schools move forward, while others lacked the political support to advance.
Published: Monday, July 16th, 2012 @ 4:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If Gov. Bev Perdue and liberal activists want to know why their Edu-scare campaign against the Republican-led General Assembly didn't work last year and won't work this year, they need only to consider the insight of essayist Kahil Gibran.
Published: Monday, April 2nd, 2012 @ 10:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There they go again: The North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) continues to pump out misleading claims about Civitas and the state's public school system.
Published: Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 @ 9:47 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Last week the North Carolina General Assembly successfully overrode Gov. Perdue's veto of SB 727- No Dues Checkoff for School Employees.
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 @ 7:48 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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