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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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The coronavirus pandemic has created a window of opportunity for school choice, says a panel of experts at a John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury.
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2021 @ 10:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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President Donald J. Trump granted pardons to 73 individuals and commuted the sentences of an additional 70 individuals
Published: Monday, January 25th, 2021 @ 10:58 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Next week is National School Choice Week (NSCW).
Published: Saturday, January 23rd, 2021 @ 10:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It might be a new year, but remote learning isn’t over.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2021 @ 11:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Dr. Corey DeAngelis, Director of School Choice, Reason Foundation, and the Civitas Institute just published a new study of North Carolina’s Education Savings Account (ESA) Program.
Published: Sunday, October 18th, 2020 @ 8:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Coronavirus has exposed the problems our public schools are having in meeting the educational needs of a diverse population. Many of these problems are rooted in the way we fund our schools.
Published: Friday, October 9th, 2020 @ 8:30 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The necessity for education choice and flexibility has proven monumentally important in a world where economic competition is global and pandemics can disrupt school and work life with jarring immediacy.
Published: Wednesday, October 7th, 2020 @ 10:30 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The COVID-19 pandemic could still threaten the long-term stability of state employee pensions, even though the state pension plan has recovered from the stock market crash, the state treasurer says.
Published: Wednesday, August 5th, 2020 @ 12:58 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The magazine, Chief Investment Officer (CIO), recently published an article about North Carolina’s pension system based on a joint report between the John Locke Foundation and the California-based Reason Foundation.
Published: Saturday, March 7th, 2020 @ 8:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Friday, February 28th, 2020 @ 11:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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At a certain age, everyone begins to wonder, “Have I saved enough for retirement?”
Published: Wednesday, February 19th, 2020 @ 3:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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At a certain age, everyone begins to wonder, “Have I saved enough for retirement?”
Published: Tuesday, February 18th, 2020 @ 7:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Now that North Carolina knows how much it can borrow, politicians are arguing about how much the state should borrow.
Published: Sunday, February 9th, 2020 @ 3:03 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Supporters of higher taxes cheered the WestEd report on North Carolina schools that became public on December 10th, five months after Judge David Lee received it.
Published: Wednesday, December 18th, 2019 @ 11:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina’s state pension plan is prepared to weather another recession, a Pew Charitable Trusts stress test says.
Published: Thursday, December 5th, 2019 @ 12:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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While lawmakers debate how much money to give to North Carolina public schools, the way state education dollars are allocated and spent has gained new scrutiny.
Published: Wednesday, September 11th, 2019 @ 3:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The latest ratings of highway systems are out — and for North Carolina, the news is mixed. In general cost-effectiveness, our state’s roads and bridges rank a bit better than average.
Published: Wednesday, September 4th, 2019 @ 1:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina Democrats and Republicans have sparred for years about the level of state funding for public schools.
Published: Friday, August 9th, 2019 @ 5:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Andrew Ross, a Marine Corps veteran who served in Afghanistan, in January was working private security for a cross-country delivery of hemp. Ross’s task was simple: Guard a truckload of state-approved industrial hemp, grown in Kentucky, and bound for Colorado.
Published: Monday, July 1st, 2019 @ 7:21 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Senate Bill 315, the North Carolina Farm Bill of 2019, passed the Senate June 17 by a 31-14 vote. S.B. 315 officially authorizes and regulates statewide hemp farming, among other things.
Published: Tuesday, June 18th, 2019 @ 12:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 1:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein has launched an investigation into Juul, a fast-growing e-cigarette company, but a consumer freedom expert warns the attempted crackdown could backfire.
Published: Wednesday, October 24th, 2018 @ 11:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The public transportation system in Wilson, as in many places, needs taxpayer subsidies to keep the buses running. The difference between the cost of operating the system and revenues, led by passenger fares, is more than $1 million a year
Published: Sunday, October 7th, 2018 @ 7:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Tuesday, August 7th, 2018 @ 12:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Tuesday, July 24th, 2018 @ 10:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Thursday, April 12th, 2018 @ 12:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since 2010, when voters put Republicans in charge of most state governments across the United States, North Carolina became one of about a half-dozen states where conservative reformers have frequently - and sometimes spectacularly - faced off with progressives in ways that have attracted significan
Published: Wednesday, April 11th, 2018 @ 12:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper says he wants to defund North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship program against the will of North Carolina's conservative legislative majority
Published: Wednesday, January 25th, 2017 @ 2:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Sunday, December 4th, 2016 @ 4:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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