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A new study shows that scaling school choice is more cost-effective in improving public school student performance than simply increasing spending on public schools.
Published: Friday, March 13th, 2026 @ 2:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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student disciplined for "All Lives Matter" shirt
Published: Thursday, March 12th, 2026 @ 9:08 am
By: John Steed
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parental rights at stake, schools allowed no opt outs for parents
Published: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025 @ 10:52 am
By: John Steed
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Recent reports shining a harsh light on illiteracy among public school students have sparked concern among public educators. Public school teachers and their unions are warning that high illiteracy rates may prevent kids from reading about gay sex.
Published: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 @ 9:09 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Not even two weeks into the new school year, at least nine Wake County public schools have already been forced to dismiss students early or close entirely because of HVAC issues.
Published: Sunday, November 26th, 2023 @ 9:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A House bill requiring North Carolina public schools to teach students a unit on the Civil Rights Movement has found widespread bipartisan support among state legislators.
Published: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 10:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The health centers are at a middle and high school.
Published: Sunday, July 30th, 2023 @ 9:45 pm
By: Daily Wire
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"All children in Virginia deserve to have a parent engaged in their life."
Published: Friday, July 28th, 2023 @ 12:01 am
By: Daily Wire
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State Employees’ Credit Union and Communities in Schools Join to Support Governor’s School Supply Drive
Published: Wednesday, July 26th, 2023 @ 12:13 am
By: Governor's Office
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RALEIGH: On May 23, Governor Roy Cooper sent a letter to all state legislators in the House and Senate urging them to make meaningful investments in North Carolina’s public schools, students and teachers and stop their plans to dismantle public education
Published: Sunday, July 2nd, 2023 @ 12:33 am
By: Governor's Office
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An overwhelming majority of Americans support school choice, which would allow parents to decide where their children are educated.
Published: Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 @ 3:12 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Denies public schools are teaching Critical Race Theory, teachers are grooming and indoctrinating students, public schools push a woke agenda.
Published: Tuesday, April 18th, 2023 @ 1:45 am
By: Daily Wire
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Public school employees who commit sexual offenses against students would face harsher penalties under a bill passed Feb. 21 by the North Carolina House K-12 Education Committee.
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 9:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Public schools in the U.S. are continuing to decline as performance and test scores reach record lows. Many are blaming this phenomenon on a lack of teachers in the classrooms since most of them have been beaten unconscious by students.
Published: Monday, March 6th, 2023 @ 8:08 am
By: Babylon Bee
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State lawyers ask the N.C. Court of Appeals two throw out two lawsuits involving public school buses that caused property damage. Both buses were delivering meals to remote-learning students during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Sunday, January 22nd, 2023 @ 9:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Seattle Public School District officials filed a lawsuit Friday against social media platform owners, including Facebook, TikTok, and others, for allegedly intentionally cultivating and creating a mental health crisis among the youth.
Published: Saturday, January 14th, 2023 @ 9:30 am
By: Daily Wire
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Homeschool students excel beyond their peers in private, charter, and public schools on the Classic Learning Test, according to a rigorous standardized college entrance exam oriented toward classically educated students.
Published: Thursday, December 22nd, 2022 @ 7:50 am
By: Daily Wire
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While newly released data show four-year graduation rates for North Carolina public schools are comparable to pre-pandemic rates, there are deeper concerns about what knowledge and skills students have when they graduate and also about the persistence of racial achievement gaps
Published: Friday, September 23rd, 2022 @ 8:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Earlier this week Keung Hui of the News and Observer tweeted that Wake County Public Schools is still recommending that all students and staff wear masks in schools
Published: Tuesday, August 9th, 2022 @ 3:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction will begin revising state health and science standards this year.
Published: Wednesday, July 20th, 2022 @ 6:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Parents of Wake County Public School students know well the realities of the school bus driver shortage.
Published: Sunday, May 29th, 2022 @ 3:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) staff member has been accused of making third graders reenact the Holocaust, with students pretending to dig mass graves and shoot victims.
Published: Sunday, April 24th, 2022 @ 9:38 am
By: Daily Wire
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Governor Roy Cooper has proclaimed February 21 - 25, 2022 as Public Schools Week to show support for public schools and the educators, counselors, custodians, bus drivers, school nutrition workers, administrators and other school staff who provide important learning experiences for students.
Published: Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022 @ 1:51 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Public schools have long been under the microscope and deservedly so, since they receive a large amount of our tax dollars and involve our most precious assets - our children
Published: Thursday, February 17th, 2022 @ 11:28 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Public Schools in N.C. Lose Students to Private, Charter, Home Schools
Published: Monday, February 7th, 2022 @ 1:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A youth risk survey for middle- and high-school students in the public school system is raising eyebrows for asking students about drug use and sexual activity.
Published: Tuesday, November 16th, 2021 @ 7:47 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A Republican congressman from North Carolina would expand school choice for students across the nation facing mask mandates or classroom instruction based on Critical Race Theory.
Published: Thursday, November 4th, 2021 @ 12:46 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Daniel Buck writes for National Review Online about major gaps in public school students’ education.
Published: Thursday, October 28th, 2021 @ 8:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Test results in reading, math, and science for the 2020-21 school year show the effects school closures and remote learning have had on public school students in North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, October 5th, 2021 @ 12:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper will allow existing state mask mandates to expire on July 30, but he’s recommending required masking for public school students in kindergarten through middle school.
Published: Sunday, August 1st, 2021 @ 12:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The act modifies reading instruction programs to improve literacy of N.C. public school students by the third grade
Published: Sunday, July 11th, 2021 @ 11:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is launching an expanded COVID-19 screening testing program to support public, charter and private K-12 schools in protecting students and staff from the spread of COVID-19.
Published: Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021 @ 9:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Republican legislators in the N.C. Senate are pushing forward a bill meant to improve literacy among North Carolina public school students by the third grade.
Published: Wednesday, March 31st, 2021 @ 2:46 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Terresa Monroe-Hamilton reports for Biz Pac Review on California’s latest proposals for indoctrinating public school students.
Published: Friday, March 19th, 2021 @ 11:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A recent Carolina Journal story detailed Attorney General Josh Stein’s fight for school administrators to retain sweeping powers to regulate and punish North Carolina public school students for disfavored speech that occurs off-campus.
Published: Thursday, March 18th, 2021 @ 11:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Christopher Bedford of the Federalist explains why he believes public school students across the country face a more significant threat than coronavirus.
Published: Wednesday, March 17th, 2021 @ 7:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services will be expanding access to COVID-19 rapid testing in K-12 public schools to protect students, teachers and staff from COVID-19.
Published: Tuesday, March 9th, 2021 @ 4:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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NCDHHS will be expanding access to COVID-19 rapid testing in K-12 public schools to protect students, teachers and staff from COVID-19.
Published: Monday, March 8th, 2021 @ 6:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A majority of North Carolina public school students failed to pass end-of-course tests in fall 2020, according to new data from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction.
Published: Sunday, March 7th, 2021 @ 9:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Think public school teachers are indoctrinating students?
Published: Friday, February 19th, 2021 @ 6:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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