Legislative leaders and Leandro plaintiffs offer contrasting arguments to the N.C. Supreme Court in the latest stage of the long-running education funding lawsuit.
Published: Friday, August 5th, 2022 @ 5:28 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A group describing itself as "recognized leaders in the North Carolina business community" supports plaintiffs in the Leandro school funding legal dispute.
Published: Sunday, July 31st, 2022 @ 1:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Leaders of the N.C. General Assembly question a request for state Supreme Court Justice Phil Berger Jr. to recuse himself from the Leandro school funding case.
Published: Monday, July 25th, 2022 @ 12:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Plaintiffs in the Leandro school funding lawsuit want Republican N.C. Supreme Court Justice Phil Berger Jr. to recuse himself from the case.
Published: Wednesday, July 20th, 2022 @ 5:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative leaders urge N.C. Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls to step away from the Leandro school funding lawsuit. They cite Earls' previous work in the case.
Published: Sunday, July 17th, 2022 @ 7:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina's Leandro school funding lawsuit returns to the N.C. Supreme Court on Aug. 31.
Published: Wednesday, July 13th, 2022 @ 12:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State legislative leaders argue a trial court's $785 million Leandro spending order exceeds judicial authority over public education.
Published: Tuesday, July 12th, 2022 @ 3:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawyers representing the N.C. State Board of Education label a forced transfer of $785 million for Leandro spending "appropriate" and "necessary."
Published: Tuesday, July 12th, 2022 @ 8:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments during the week of Aug. 29 in the long-running Leandro school funding case.
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2022 @ 4:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper says his proposed 2022-23 budget adjustments would address unfunded pieces of a court-ordered Leandro school funding plan.
Published: Saturday, May 14th, 2022 @ 8:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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It’s budget season for North Carolina’s local governments, and some officials are taking the opportunity to propose tax increases yet again.
Published: Friday, May 13th, 2022 @ 12:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Bridges Academy falsified student enrollment records to obtain $404,971 in state funding to which it was not entitled.
Published: Thursday, May 5th, 2022 @ 9:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The judge in North Carolina’s long-running Leandro school funding legal dispute calls for state government to spend an additional $785 million on education-related items.
Published: Wednesday, May 4th, 2022 @ 1:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The judge overseeing North Carolina’s long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit signaled Friday that he will produce an order next week calling for additional state education spending.
Published: Wednesday, April 27th, 2022 @ 10:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Monday, April 25th, 2022 @ 12:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today Judge Michael Robinson held his first substantive hearing as the presiding judge in the long-running Leandro school funding case.
Published: Monday, April 25th, 2022 @ 11:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Supreme Court is giving the new judge overseeing North Carolina’s long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit another seven days to issue his ruling. The high court granted the judge’s request for additional time in an order Wednesday.
Published: Friday, April 22nd, 2022 @ 10:24 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The new judge overseeing North Carolina’s long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit wants another seven days to issue his ruling. He asked the N.C. Supreme Court Tuesday to grant him another week to consider the case.
Published: Thursday, April 21st, 2022 @ 12:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A new filing in the long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit would lop another $25 million off of the cost of court-ordered education spending.
Published: Tuesday, April 19th, 2022 @ 5:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The former presiding jurist in the Leandro school funding case says the current struggles facing public schools in North Carolina are more about a breakdown in classroom instruction than a lack of funding.
Published: Sunday, April 17th, 2022 @ 8:05 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Plaintiffs and N.C. Justice Department lawyers are urging a judge to order $795 million in new state education spending.
Published: Wednesday, April 13th, 2022 @ 1:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State officials report that close to $800 million remains unfunded from a judge’s $1.7 billion state education spending order. That assessment resulted from a court-ordered comparison of the spending plan and the new state budget.
Published: Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 @ 7:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court has agreed to block a lower court ruling against Greenville’s red-light camera enforcement program. The court granted a temporary stay Wednesday. It will allow the program to proceed as a lawsuit against red-light cameras continues.
Published: Sunday, April 3rd, 2022 @ 8:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Thursday, March 31st, 2022 @ 9:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Greenville and the Pitt County school system are asking the N.C. Supreme Court to block a ruling throwing out the city’s red-light camera enforcement program. The city and local school board filed paperwork Tuesday with the state’s highest court.
Published: Wednesday, March 30th, 2022 @ 4:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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One line in a new court order could mark a major new development in the long-running legal battle over education funding in North Carolina. The line strikes at the heart of a constitutional dispute about $1.7 billion that has reached the state’s highest court.
Published: Monday, March 28th, 2022 @ 2:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The legal dispute over $1.7 billion in court-ordered N.C. education funding will head back to a Wake County courtroom on April 13. The new judge overseeing the dispute set that date during his first online meeting Thursday with lawyers involved in the case.
Published: Saturday, March 26th, 2022 @ 5:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Friday, March 25th, 2022 @ 12:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court has agreed to jump back into the state’s long-running school funding legal dispute. The court wants a trial judge to assess the impact of the new state budget on a $1.7 billion order for additional state education spending.
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 @ 1:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative leaders argue there’s no good reason for the N.C. Supreme Court to step into a dispute now over $1.7 billion in court-ordered education funding.
Published: Thursday, March 3rd, 2022 @ 8:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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For all their virtue-signaling about caring for the poor, the progressive game plan to help the poor has an abysmal track record.
Published: Sunday, February 27th, 2022 @ 12:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Supporters of a proposed $1.7 billion court-ordered hike in N.C. education funding are renewing their pleas for action from the N.C. Supreme Court.
Published: Thursday, January 20th, 2022 @ 11:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawyers working for N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein will soon ask the state Supreme Court to jump back into the long-running Leandro school funding dispute.
Published: Thursday, January 20th, 2022 @ 11:03 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina State Treasury Controller Linda Combs was fighting for 1.7 billion dollars of taxpayers’ money over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 8:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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