Remarks by President Trump at the 2019 National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week Conference
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2019 @ 11:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In September, North Carolinians will know which low-performing elementary schools will be considered for the Innovative School District in 2018 and be turned over to charter school operators
Published: Wednesday, July 12th, 2017 @ 12:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory issued the following statement on the passing of Rodney Ellis, former president of the NCAE:
Published: Monday, September 12th, 2016 @ 8:00 am
By: McCrory Communications
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The N.C. Supreme Court gave a boost to school choice efforts on Thursday by declaring that the state's fledgling Opportunity Scholarships Program met constitutional muster.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 4:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina school districts should face few challenges administering a split tenure system for teachers following a state Court of Appeals opinion which maintained job protection for long-term teachers while eliminating it for those entering the profession, one official says.
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2015 @ 4:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Although I agree that other parts of the House budget are problematic, their K-12 education budget includes additional funding for a number of promising initiatives and research-based programs. Clearly, the Republican leadership recognizes that boosting student performance requires targeted...
Published: Monday, June 15th, 2015 @ 4:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two of the state's most powerful lawmakers are perplexed that their education reform bill passed unanimously in the House but immediately was assigned to the Senate's Ways and Means Committee, a graveyard for legislation.
Published: Tuesday, May 19th, 2015 @ 4:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Public schools work for Delicia Hare's 14-year-old son, but not so well for her 8-year-old son Christian Houston. Hare uses the $4,200 voucher she gets from the state's Opportunity Scholarship Program to offset some of the costs of sending Christian to Raleigh Christian Academy. She homeschooled...
Published: Friday, February 20th, 2015 @ 2:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Projections about a mass teacher exodus in North Carolina sparked by Republican legislative policies not only have failed to materialize, but also turnover rates declined last year, according to an annual report issued by the state Department of Public Instruction.
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 11:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In Mississippi, when incumbent US senator Thad Cochran appeared to be going down in flames to Tea Party candidate Chris McDaniel, GOP establishment types sold their souls and threw in with Democrats to fend off the conservative hordes.
Published: Sunday, July 20th, 2014 @ 4:11 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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If you like your teacher tenure plan, you can keep your teacher tenure plan, Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, told educators at a Wednesday press conference. Just don't expect a pay raise.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 6:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The leader of the state Senate promised fast action to appeal a Wake County Superior Court judge's decision halting the General Assembly's plans to end teacher tenure. Meantime, the head of the state's largest teacher association, which brought the lawsuit challenging the end of career status, was d
Published: Tuesday, May 20th, 2014 @ 2:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Supporters of North Carolina's fledgling Opportunity Scholarships program see the motion granted Friday by a Superior Court judge placing the plan on hold as little more than a temporary setback. Advocates of the 2013 measure, which would have provided up to 2,400 low-income public school...
Published: Wednesday, February 26th, 2014 @ 4:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In laying out its legal case against the state over elimination of teacher tenure, the North Carolina Association of Educators cites some of the same constitutional constructs of contract law that state employees used two decades ago to overturn the General Assembly's repeal of income tax exemptions
Published: Saturday, February 15th, 2014 @ 12:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state's largest teachers organization along with the left-of-center N.C. Justice Center have filed a lawsuit challenging the private school voucher program passed by the 2013 General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Pat McCrory.
Published: Saturday, December 14th, 2013 @ 10:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state's largest teachers group - the N.C. Association of Educators - is saying that it is not connected to a proposed Nov.
Published: Friday, November 1st, 2013 @ 6:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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School choice advocates won several high-profile battles this year over bills to expand and strengthen the charter school movement and to award private school vouchers to students struggling in public schools.
Published: Friday, August 16th, 2013 @ 9:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I got my first lesson in competition when I was a 12-year-old first baseman on a softball team. For years I'd been the only girl able to snag wild throws...
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2013 @ 1:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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