Districts may choose to conduct school entirely by remote learning
Published: Wednesday, July 15th, 2020 @ 3:08 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Three weeks ago, Gov. Cooper told North Carolinians that he would announce their selection of one of three back-to-school options on July 1. For the most part, teachers were cool with that.
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2020 @ 1:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State revenue is an estimated $4 billion short, but public school teachers don’t care.
Published: Tuesday, June 30th, 2020 @ 11:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We need a plan that gets our students back to school.
Published: Friday, June 12th, 2020 @ 9:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Guidance formed through collaborative process with DHHS and School Leaders
Published: Tuesday, June 9th, 2020 @ 12:03 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Public schools are supposed to begin the new year about 75 days from now, so I asked two teachers what to expect.
Published: Friday, May 29th, 2020 @ 7:47 am
By: Tom Campbell
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To limit the spread of coronavirus, public schools have been closed across North Carolina and the nation.
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2020 @ 11:36 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Last week Gov. Roy Cooper extended the closure of all public schools in North Carolina through May 15 via executive order. Among other things, Cooper said the extension is necessary to promote public health and safety in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
Published: Tuesday, March 31st, 2020 @ 9:59 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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One day after declaring a state of emergency, Gov. Roy Cooper signed an executive order prohibiting mass gatherings greater than 100 people and closing the public schools until March 30 to limit the spread of coronavirus.
Published: Friday, March 20th, 2020 @ 2:46 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Roy Cooper today ordered all K-12 public schools in North Carolina to close for a minimum of two weeks in response to COVID-19.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2020 @ 11:46 am
By: Governor's Office
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As stories of the spread of coronavirus continue to circulate in the media, teachers have turned to Facebook to complain about a purported shortage of cleaning supplies and hand sanitizer needed to combat the spread of COVID-19 in their schools and classrooms.
Published: Saturday, March 14th, 2020 @ 8:24 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Many North Carolinians assume that the elected superintendent of public instruction is the head of the state's public schools.
Published: Sunday, February 16th, 2020 @ 6:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yesterday The Raleigh News and Observer ran an article titled, North Carolina teachers may go on strike for higher pay and Medicaid expansion.
Published: Thursday, January 23rd, 2020 @ 2:15 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Remarks by President Trump on the Announcement of Guidance on Constitutional Prayer in Public Schools
Published: Sunday, January 19th, 2020 @ 6:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina should make it easier for public school teachers to grow professionally, and for principals to spend money and direct personnel as they see fit, a pivotal new education report says.
Published: Wednesday, January 1st, 2020 @ 12:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A sense of urgency has taken hold of higher education leaders nationwide. Reports of declining community college graduation rates and the lack of skilled workers have led policymakers and college leaders to sound the alarm
Published: Friday, November 22nd, 2019 @ 2:44 am
By: Carolina Journal
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What we are doing in public education isn’t working for many of North Carolina’s children.
Published: Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 @ 8:07 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Another chapter may soon be added to North Carolina’s long-running school finance case known as Leandro v. State.
Published: Friday, November 15th, 2019 @ 9:37 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Recently I asked my 14-year-old son to identify the biggest problem at the public school he attends in Wake County. He didn’t hesitate to answer.
Published: Friday, November 15th, 2019 @ 9:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Under the Forest administration, North Carolina’s public schools will be flexible enough to adapt to the demands of the modern economy while boosting academic performance.
Published: Friday, November 8th, 2019 @ 12:43 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Wake County parent Dina Bartus garnered national attention recently for exposing a controversial assignment given to her child and other 10th–graders at Heritage High School in Wake Forest.
Published: Sunday, September 29th, 2019 @ 3:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Erik Root, an executive with the Roger Bacon Academy charter school management organization, raises doubts about the claim oft-repeated claims that public charter schools harm their district school competition.
Published: Friday, September 20th, 2019 @ 8:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper announced late Friday, Aug. 23, that he vetoed Senate Bill 438, the Excellent Public School Act of 2019.
Published: Saturday, September 7th, 2019 @ 9:56 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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While initial rulings in the Leandro case had nothing directly to do with charter schools, recent discussions are bringing the traditional public school alternative into the conversation.
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 11:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Some advocates of higher pay for N.C. public school teachers don’t like the number $53,975. Specifically, they don’t like that number reported as the average salary for a teacher in the Tar Heel State.
Published: Saturday, June 8th, 2019 @ 4:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
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At the end of the 2010-11 school year, the state had 99 charter schools that enrolled around 41,200 children, and thousands of children remained on waitlists, hoping to be among the lucky few selected in an enrollment lottery.
Published: Friday, May 24th, 2019 @ 4:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Raleigh Charter High School is one of the top schools in the country, but it’s not what one would call a typical public school.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2019 @ 3:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Critics of charter schools argue school-choice programs, like charter schools, siphon money and resources from traditional public schools.
Published: Saturday, May 18th, 2019 @ 12:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The state would bypass local school districts and give each N.C. public school teacher access to $400 for classroom supplies under a bill unveiled Wednesday, April 3.
Published: Wednesday, April 17th, 2019 @ 11:33 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In 2013, North Carolina launched “Read To Achieve, which was supposed to help lagging kids reach literacy by third grade. Six years and $150 million later, the state has seen little success.
Published: Thursday, April 11th, 2019 @ 6:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In his proposed budget released on Wednesday, Gov. Roy Cooper has provided the tax and spending details for his vision of a North Carolina determined to spend a lot more on state government
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2019 @ 4:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Court Gives the State More Time to Pay $730 Million Judgment in Lawsuit over School Technology FundsA Wake County Superior Court judge signed a consent order giving the state more time to pay a nearly $730 million judgment in a lawsuit over school technology funds
Published: Monday, March 11th, 2019 @ 9:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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