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The Center Square: As of Nov. 1, there were 163,175 North Carolina students identified as “English learners.”
Published: Wednesday, December 24th, 2025 @ 11:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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genuine parent input thwarted; liberal DPI input retained
Published: Wednesday, August 21st, 2024 @ 8:30 am
By: John Steed
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For parents and some school board candidates in North Carolina, the big question asked is, “Where do the state standards end and the district’s curricula begin?”
Published: Wednesday, September 14th, 2022 @ 2:52 am
By: Donald Shreve
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Who decides the standards and curriculum? The state? Local school boards? We'll talk to NC Treasurer and State School Board member Dale Folwell and ask him about this and public school spending.
Published: Friday, August 5th, 2022 @ 3:29 pm
By: John Woodard
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even pushed CRT training for disabled preschoolers
Published: Thursday, March 17th, 2022 @ 5:23 pm
By: John Steed
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North Carolina’s state constitution, in Article IX, section 1 (“Education Encouraged”), reads: “Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools, libraries, and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”
Published: Thursday, February 10th, 2022 @ 10:24 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The Pennsylvania School Boards Association (PSBA) has withdrawn from the National School Boards Association (NSBA) because of the NSBA’s letter suggesting the recent behavior of individuals in school board meetings could eventually rise to the level of “domestic terrorism or hate crimes.”
Published: Saturday, January 15th, 2022 @ 4:11 pm
By: Daily Wire
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stands up for parents rights
Published: Thursday, October 14th, 2021 @ 8:06 am
By: John Steed
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blast National School Board Association
Published: Tuesday, October 12th, 2021 @ 8:14 am
By: John Steed
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The legislative proposal would end private non-profit’s control of high school sports
Published: Friday, July 30th, 2021 @ 10:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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At least one local board of education has voted to delay controversial new social studies standards that emphasize race and gender in teaching U.S. history and civics.
Published: Thursday, July 15th, 2021 @ 4:15 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A damning report came out about North Carolina Standards. Who got it wrong? Who got it right?
Published: Thursday, July 8th, 2021 @ 2:23 pm
By: John Woodard
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Mr. William “Billy” Earl Jefferson, Sr., age 87, a resident of Chocowinity, NC died Sunday January 17, 2021 at his home with his family by his side.
Published: Tuesday, January 19th, 2021 @ 9:55 am
By: Announcements
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COVID-19 has upended our traditional way of educating kids.
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2020 @ 2:20 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Superintendent of Public Instruction Mark Johnson in his power struggle against the State Board of Education
Published: Thursday, June 21st, 2018 @ 9:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. State Board of Education will learn Wednesday details of a plan for helping public schools make better use of digital technology.
Published: Monday, August 31st, 2015 @ 10:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Although the gap between Republicans and Democrats in North Carolina is rather wide on a number of issues - tax policy, Medicaid expansion, and campaign-finance laws come to mind - there are still some prospects for bipartisan cooperation in 2015 and beyond.
Published: Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014 @ 1:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some members of local school boards are questioning the decision by the state school boards association to join a legal battle over vouchers for students from lower-income families. They also question whether the organization should be using membership dues, which come from local tax dollars, to...
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 12:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Guilford County Board of Education voted unanimously to take legal action so that it would not have to comply with state law eliminating tenure, or "career status," for K-12 public school teachers.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 6:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Nullification is the theory that says that actions of the federal government that are passed, imposed, or exercised in excess or abuse of the express authority granted in the Constitution are not enforceable.
Published: Sunday, July 28th, 2013 @ 8:52 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Last fall public schools in North Carolina along with 44 other states began implementing Common Core Standards.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2013 @ 9:14 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Virtual charter schools and other distance-learning options would be unshackled from the legal-political bind in which they remain idled if Lt. Gov.-elect Dan Forest has his way.
Published: Thursday, December 27th, 2012 @ 9:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2012 short session of the General Assembly saw some proposed reforms to the public schools move forward, while others lacked the political support to advance.
Published: Monday, July 16th, 2012 @ 4:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Conservative John Tedesco's fight to end forced busing as a member of the Wake County school board made national news.
Published: Tuesday, June 19th, 2012 @ 11:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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