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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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The North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law backs plaintiffs challenging the funding arrangement of Greenville's now-dismantled red-light camera enforcement program.
Published: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 1:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Bipartisan Calls from Public Education Leaders in 40 School Districts Across the State Urge Legislators to Invest in Public Schools
Published: Monday, September 11th, 2023 @ 7:54 am
By: Governor's Office
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Bipartisan Calls from Public Education Leaders Across the State Urge Legislators to Invest in Public Schools, Stop Unaccountable Voucher Expansion
Published: Tuesday, August 15th, 2023 @ 11:48 am
By: Governor's Office
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Gov. Roy Cooper is doubling down on his declared “state of emergency” over K-12 public education funding in North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, July 30th, 2023 @ 10:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Bipartisan Calls from 30+ School Boards and Public Education Leaders Across the State to Invest in Public Schools
Published: Friday, July 21st, 2023 @ 5:05 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The Pennsylvania GOP learned life lesson number one recently: don’t be so eager to work with the Left.
Published: Friday, July 21st, 2023 @ 10:55 am
By: Daily Wire
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Starting the in 1970s, teacher unions began politicizing teacher spending on classroom items
Published: Wednesday, August 10th, 2022 @ 6:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Parents in North Carolina report feeling increasingly concerned about the public schools’ efforts to usurp their parental authority on topics such as mask and COVID-19 vaccine mandates to the teaching of controversial race and gender theories.
Published: Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021 @ 2:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A new study from researchers at the University of Arkansas and Western Carolina University finds that a Democrat-backed budget bill pending in Congress would slash an average of $1,131 per student in resources for charter schools.
Published: Wednesday, November 17th, 2021 @ 7:29 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Reopening schools is the top priority of Catherine Truitt, the Republican candidate for state superintendent.
Published: Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 @ 3:01 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The left-wing group Progress NC describes itself as “a 501(c)3 non-partisan non-profit organization dedicated to informing voters of key public policy issues through traditional news media, online engagement, and hands-on communications trainings.”
Published: Thursday, October 1st, 2020 @ 11:10 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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The General Assembly met yesterday for a one-day session on the state budget.
Published: Saturday, January 18th, 2020 @ 2:34 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The state funding targets that likely will be outlined in the WestEd report are anybody’s guess.
Published: Thursday, December 5th, 2019 @ 3:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Last week, the Education Law Center published "Making the Grade 2019," a report that focuses exclusively on three categories of public school inputs: funding levels, distribution, and effort using data from the 2016-17 school year.
Published: Monday, November 18th, 2019 @ 4:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Once again teachers will descend on the state capital to call for more public school funding, Medicaid expansion, and a $15 minimum wage for all school workers.
Published: Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019 @ 1:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In his budget to the legislature, set to be presented tomorrow, Governor Roy Cooper will announce an ambitious and forward-thinking education plan to make North Carolina a "Top 10 Educated State" by 2025
Published: Saturday, March 4th, 2017 @ 5:53 pm
By: Governor's Office
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North Carolina's current method for funding public schools favors wealthy counties over low-income areas, according to a new study from the state legislature's Program Evaluation Division
Published: Friday, December 30th, 2016 @ 9:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Another Charter School Funding Victory
Published: Tuesday, September 6th, 2016 @ 2:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The mainstream media and pundits on both sides of the aisle focus an extraordinary amount of time and energy examining public school funding
Published: Saturday, August 6th, 2016 @ 3:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you watch the evening news broadcasts or read the local paper, you have been told that more educators than ever are leaving North Carolina to teach elsewhere because the N.C. General Assembly "slashed" public school funding. Most of these stories, however, omit key facts and research findings...
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 3:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Now that the North Carolina General Assembly has convened its 2015 session, let's look at what legislators have done over the last four years to improve our public schools and consider what they still have to do.
Published: Saturday, January 17th, 2015 @ 12:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 1781, Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis of the British Army defeated Major General Nathanael Greene in a brief but critical Revolutionary War skirmish later known as the Battle of the Guilford Court House.
Published: Thursday, October 2nd, 2014 @ 1:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Where does the money for our K-12 public schools come from? You.
Published: Thursday, June 12th, 2014 @ 1:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Some left-wing commentators have speculated that a sizable number of public school teachers are leaving North Carolina to teach in states that are, presumably, more hospitable to the profession. They want the public to believe that policies instituted by Republican lawmakers are to blame. It is...
Published: Saturday, December 7th, 2013 @ 6:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's getting pretty clear that Tea Party-affiliated groups and voters are warming up to Cary physician Greg Brannon and his campaign for the GOP nomination for US Senate.
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 11:49 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A bill that would authorize tax dollars to be used for private school vouchers cleared its first hurdle Tuesday by passing the House Education Committee in a 27-21 vote.
Published: Wednesday, May 29th, 2013 @ 11:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Will Rogers said, "Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago."
Published: Saturday, October 6th, 2012 @ 2:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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