A bill that would change the governance structure for three state schools for the deaf and the blind became law on Monday without Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper’s signature.
Published: Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 @ 10:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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You have to give legislators credit for identifying an issue that has needed addressing for decades. They introduced a bill that would eliminate the power of the sitting governor to name the members of the State Board of Education.
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 7:14 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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A proposed constitutional amendment would make N.C. Board of Education members elected rather than appointed.
Published: Tuesday, July 5th, 2022 @ 10:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Published: Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 @ 5:16 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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If you were tasked with organizing a system of publicly funded schools, how would you do it?
Published: Wednesday, January 26th, 2022 @ 7:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The recent skirmish between the State Board of Education and Superintendent for Public Instruction is yet another reminder of the longstanding debate about just who is in charge of public education in our state.
Published: Wednesday, October 16th, 2019 @ 11:26 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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In North Carolina, state law empowers county commissions to oversee school facilities and the collection and appropriation of local tax dollars to school districts
Published: Monday, September 17th, 2018 @ 6:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Superintendent of Public Instruction Mark Johnson's first few months in office have been anything but boring
Published: Friday, August 11th, 2017 @ 9:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A three-judge panel is currently tasked with interpreting one of our state's thorniest issues, namely who is in charge of public education. Is it to be the State Board of Education or the state Superintendent of Public Instruction?
Published: Sunday, July 2nd, 2017 @ 9:00 am
By: Tom Campbell
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If North Carolina were to secede from the union and become an independent country - no, conspiracy theorists, I'm not actually proposing this as a reasonable response to recent political events - how would our education system rank among the other developed nations of the world
Published: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017 @ 1:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When we are children, our parents and relatives urge us to "play by the rules." Typically, violating the rules triggers consequences that correspond to the severity...
Published: Thursday, April 18th, 2013 @ 12:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A Senate committee Wednesday approved a bill creating the North Carolina Public Charter Schools Board, shifting oversight of the state's expanding number of charter schools away from the State Board of Education.
Published: Monday, April 15th, 2013 @ 9:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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