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The vote to close S. W. Snowden takes place this Tuesday, June 3rd!
Published: Monday, June 2nd, 2025 @ 9:05 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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A House bill requiring North Carolina public schools to teach students a unit on the Civil Rights Movement has found widespread bipartisan support among state legislators.
Published: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 10:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A bill presented by a bipartisan group of North Carolina lawmakers looks to expand teaching opportunities for ethnic-minority males.
Published: Wednesday, July 5th, 2023 @ 10:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The new judge in North Carolina's Leandro education funding case could issue a ruling on a new spending order within three weeks.
Published: Monday, April 10th, 2023 @ 3:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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New Leandro Judge James Ammons has confirmed his next hearing Friday will focus solely on the state's outstanding education funding obligations.
Published: Sunday, April 2nd, 2023 @ 1:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A new calculation from N.C. state officials says more than $677 million of a court-ordered Leandro education plan remains unfunded.
Published: Monday, January 9th, 2023 @ 2:37 pm
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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In July, the N.C. State Board of Education approved the remaining supplementary materials accompanying revised social studies standards approved earlier this year.
Published: Thursday, May 5th, 2022 @ 4:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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 N.C. Senate is now considering the House's bill that would require open access to lessons plans and instructional material being taught in public schools.
Published: Wednesday, May 12th, 2021 @ 10:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Transmission of the COVID-19 virus has been “extremely limited” in public schools that have reopened in North Carolina, a team of researchers from Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill have found.
Published: Tuesday, January 12th, 2021 @ 12:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper appears unwilling to allow North Carolina’s 1.5 million public school children to return to school full-time this fall, and parents must prepare for the life-altering consequences of Cooper’s decisions which will be announced July 1.
Published: Saturday, June 20th, 2020 @ 7:11 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Every February, the Information Analysis section of the Division of School Business at the NC Department of Public Instruction (DPI) publishes “Highlights of the North Carolina Public School Budget.”
Published: Thursday, May 28th, 2020 @ 7:59 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina’s failure to pass a budget could affect a state-mandated financial literacy course requirement for all public high schools.
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2019 @ 12:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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There’s no magic bullet. N.C. lawmakers admit as much when they discuss ways to boost student achievement in school districts labeled “predominantly disadvantaged.”
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2019 @ 9:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The House passed its $24.5 billion General Fund budget for 2019-20 by a 61-54 margin Thursday, May 2, after spending three hours wrestling with 34 amendments.
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 @ 3:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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They are four words among many in the state constitution. But their meaning could invalidate all laws passed in a 2016 special session of the General Assembly if a three-judge Superior Court panel decides they enshrine fundamental right predating the American Revolution
Published: Friday, March 2nd, 2018 @ 1:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A good percentage of North Carolinians think charter schools are private schools
Published: Monday, October 9th, 2017 @ 12:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Traditional public schools saw about 5,000 fewer students walk through their doors for the 2016-17 school year
Published: Monday, July 24th, 2017 @ 7:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A newly released state audit has revealed shortcomings in the state government information technology system that could compromise security.
Published: Thursday, May 26th, 2016 @ 1:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A teacher, a lawyer, and a doctor all say North Carolina needs a new leader in the state's highest elected position for education policy, and are laying claims to why they should be at the helm.
Published: Sunday, March 6th, 2016 @ 4:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. Edward Hanes, D-Forsyth, said a proposed Achievement School District that would operate with charter school flexibility is a step in the right direction to turn around low-performing schools that are "death traps" for the prospects of minority children.
Published: Thursday, February 25th, 2016 @ 3:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, said he is "alarmed" that the state Department of Public Instruction and State Board of Education agreed, possibly in violation of state open meetings laws and legislative requirements, to shift funds intended to help children learn to read into maintai
Published: Saturday, February 20th, 2016 @ 6:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory has urged North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper to join South Carolina in filing a friend-of-the-court, or amicus, brief opposing the Obama administration and the ACLU in a lawsuit that could require North Carolina K-12 schools to open restrooms and locker rooms to transgender.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In what is evolving into a war of words and political philosophies, Gov. Pat McCrory said he would pursue what Attorney General Roy Cooper would not - formal opposition to a Virginia transgender student's lawsuit that could force North Carolina to allow both sexes to use the same K-12 public...
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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