eliminate the waitlist for the state’s Opportunity Scholarships voucher program
Published: Sunday, May 5th, 2024 @ 9:06 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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That’s the question Marguerite Roza of Georgetown University’s Edunomics Lab sought to answer in a recent webinar on the topic.
Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024 @ 12:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Here’s my parting message for the year: “23 skidoo.” Readers “of a certain age,” know this early 20th century slang expression.
Published: Wednesday, February 21st, 2024 @ 5:19 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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A three-judge panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday in a suit brought by parents claiming that a Charlotte-area private school went woke and then expelled students of parents who disagreed.
Published: Tuesday, February 20th, 2024 @ 3:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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This week, absent Governor Cooper's signature, the NC General Assembly's 2023-24/2024-25 biennium budget recommendations became law.
Published: Wednesday, February 14th, 2024 @ 11:48 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Doug Turpin has a personal story about how a school can change its values quickly, without parents being fully apprised.
Published: Thursday, January 25th, 2024 @ 2:15 am
By: Carolina Journal
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School choice advocates thought it couldn’t get any better than the successes and growth of the movement in 2022. But then 2023 came along.
Published: Tuesday, January 16th, 2024 @ 12:43 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Protecting you child from transgender lies
Published: Monday, January 8th, 2024 @ 9:32 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper recently paid a visit to the Mary Washington Howe Pre-K Center in Wilmington to announce an $8 million funding initiative for preschools across North Carolina.
Published: Friday, December 22nd, 2023 @ 10:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ripped California Governor Gavin Newsom for his policies that have led to a mass exodus in his state during a debate between the two on Thursday night.
Published: Saturday, December 16th, 2023 @ 2:29 pm
By: Daily Wire
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I don’t recognize North Carolina today. It is not the state I’ve loved and lived in all my life. We’ve changed from being “where the weak grow strong, and the strong grow great” to a state where we select the ones we choose to hate.
Published: Sunday, December 10th, 2023 @ 10:12 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The state Supreme Court will not bypass an intermediate court's consideration of two parents' lawsuit against a Charlotte private school. Doug and Nicole Turpin accuse Charlotte Latin of expelling their children to retaliate against criticism of changes in the school's focus.
Published: Tuesday, December 5th, 2023 @ 2:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A new report on Florida’s K-12 education system describes the main tenets of Critical Social Justice, discusses how this ideology finds its way into K-12 schools, and documents how Florida has worked to reduce its spread
Published: Tuesday, November 28th, 2023 @ 12:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State government data show that North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program serves students from low- and moderate-income households
Published: Saturday, November 25th, 2023 @ 7:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new court filing from two parents alleges that Charlotte Latin School "hatched a plan" to expel their two children after the parents questioned the school's operations.
Published: Saturday, November 18th, 2023 @ 12:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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I recently attended a forum discussing the future of elections in North Carolina. During a break, someone commented on my rants about legislative shenanigans, asking my assessment of the current General Assembly. I rambled a bit, but do remember mentioning the terms “historic,” and “power grab.”
Published: Sunday, November 12th, 2023 @ 9:15 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Cooper and religion
Published: Saturday, November 11th, 2023 @ 11:45 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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North Carolina’s Hispanic population holds the lowest high school graduation rate of any other race/ethnic group in the state, proving to be one of the biggest challenges facing that community today.
Published: Wednesday, November 8th, 2023 @ 7:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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CCP national security threat
Published: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 7:24 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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North Carolina’s budget for the new biennium would expand school choice across the state to an unprecedented level.
Published: Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 @ 9:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A new study from the Heritage Foundation finds that states with expansive school choice have lower private-school tuition rate increases than states without school choice.
Published: Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 @ 5:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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For a long time, Democrats have held a large advantage over Republicans amongst voters on the issue of education. However, that appears to have changed.
Published: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 10:46 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The budget our legislature has passed is the cherry on top of the upside-down power grab cake our lawmakers have been baking since January.
Published: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 12:11 am
By: Tom Campbell
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper toured Cedar Ridge Elementary School in Lowgap and delivered supplies collected from the Governor’s School Supply Drive.
Published: Monday, October 23rd, 2023 @ 7:10 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Two groups representing private schools back Charlotte Latin at the N.C. Court of Appeals in the school's dispute with parents of two expelled students.
Published: Sunday, October 22nd, 2023 @ 10:24 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A new ad from a national watchdog group compares North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper to former Alabama Democrat governor George Wallace, a prominent segregationist.
Published: Friday, October 20th, 2023 @ 12:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper hosted a roundtable discussion at the Kathy Taft Center for Leadership and Excellence in Pitt County to highlight the extreme Republican plans to undermine and underfund public education in North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, October 17th, 2023 @ 2:25 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Sixteen private schools in Durham and Cumberland counties want a three-judge panel to resolve their concerns about a recently dismissed lawsuit involving Opportunity Scholarships.
Published: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 1:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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School bells are ringing across North Carolina. Children are having backpacks blessed. Seniors are driving decorated cars around neighborhoods to the school parking lot. Excitement rises as the back-to-school rituals crank up.
Published: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 8:02 am
By: Lib Campbell
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Undoing years of indoctrination in a matter of weeks
Published: Sunday, October 1st, 2023 @ 1:18 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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