Carolina Journal by Video - LX: Locke’s Terry Stoops discusses judge’s possible school funding orderThe 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: Saturday, January 15th, 2022 @ 1:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Carolina Journal by Video - LIII: Locke’s Terry Stoops analyzes Leandro’s impact on N.C. budget dealThe 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, January 14th, 2022 @ 1:58 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses Judge David Lee’s latest actions in North Carolina’s Leandro school funding case.
Published: Thursday, January 13th, 2022 @ 7:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A Democrat-controlled N.C. Supreme Court could end up deciding the constitutionality of a $1.7-billion transfer ordered by the presiding judge in the long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit.
Published: Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 @ 10:10 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Carolina Journal reports that the NC Court of Appeals ruled that the recent order issued by Judge David Lee in the Leandro case is unconstitutional.
Published: Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 @ 9:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Controller Linda Combs and Republican legislative leaders are asking the N.C. Supreme Court not to step into the latest dispute involving the long-running Leandro school funding case. At stake is $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds.
Published: Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 @ 10:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Loudoun County School Board (LCPS), which has been harshly criticized by parents for its policies, is now asking the state to make sure the county’s school funding is not cut despite dropping enrollment “due to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Published: Friday, December 17th, 2021 @ 4:11 am
By: Daily Wire
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The N.C. Court of Appeals has thrown out a retired trial judge’s order forcing state officials to transfer $1.7 billion out of the state treasury for education-related spending.
Published: Tuesday, December 14th, 2021 @ 12:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State Attorney General Josh Stein’s office is willing to go along with a delay in implementing a $1.7 billion school funding order. A court filing from Stein’s office Tuesday morning marked the latest development in the long-running Leandro lawsuit.
Published: Monday, December 13th, 2021 @ 8:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State Controller Linda Combs is going to court to block a recent ruling in the long-running Leandro school funding case.
Published: Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 @ 11:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A retired Union County judge is trying to leapfrog the Republican-led N.C. General Assembly by ordering a $1.7 billion transfer from the state’s coffers to fund public education.
Published: Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 @ 6:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The original judge in North Carolina’s long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit disputes the notion that a judge can force other government actors to spend more money on education.
Published: Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 @ 5:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A top N.C. Senate education leader is criticizing Attorney General Josh Stein for his handling of the state’s defense in the long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit.
Published: Wednesday, December 1st, 2021 @ 11:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The plaintiffs in the long-running Leandro school funding case have asked the court to bypass the legislature and order the state government to transfer $1.7 billion to begin funding components of the plan.
Published: Sunday, November 28th, 2021 @ 12:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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Should Democrats on the State Supreme Court make the highly partisan and controversial move of forcing two Republican State Supreme Court Justices off a critical case to decide the fate of voter-approved state constitutional amendments requiring voter ID and lowering the maximum income tax rate.
Published: Thursday, November 18th, 2021 @ 8:37 am
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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The judge in the long-running Leandro school funding case could issue an order as early as three weeks compelling the General Assembly to fully fund a court-ordered plan drawn up by California-based consultants.
Published: Monday, November 15th, 2021 @ 9:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican budget writers in the General Assembly are bristling after the judge in the long-running Leandro school funding case set an arbitrary deadline of Oct. 18 for lawmakers to fund the court-ordered plan.
Published: Monday, October 25th, 2021 @ 4:21 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The judge in the ongoing Leandro school funding case has signed an order that attempts to compel the General Assembly to fund the components of the Comprehensive Remedial Plan agreed to by both the defendants and plaintiffs in the case last year.
Published: Monday, June 21st, 2021 @ 11:32 am
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: Friday, June 11th, 2021 @ 9:17 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: Sunday, May 9th, 2021 @ 5:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A recently introduced Senate bill would authorize and regulate sports betting in North Carolina beyond the tribal casinos with the revenue primarily going to schools and economic development.
Published: Wednesday, April 28th, 2021 @ 11:44 am
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: Saturday, April 24th, 2021 @ 6:18 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: Wednesday, April 14th, 2021 @ 10:25 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: Sunday, March 28th, 2021 @ 2:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Few issues are as politicized and utilitarian as public education. That’s unfortunate.
Published: Monday, February 1st, 2021 @ 4:47 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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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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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has just been re-elected.
Published: Thursday, November 12th, 2020 @ 12:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Richard Weaver’s famous book “Ideas have Consequences” has a pithy and poignant title.
Published: Thursday, November 12th, 2020 @ 12:35 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have officially shown their blatant disregard for the United States Constitution.
Published: Thursday, October 1st, 2020 @ 7:51 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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