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A Message to Voters of Beaufort County from Gary Carlton in Four Parts
Published: Monday, May 9th, 2022 @ 8:34 am
By: Gary Carlton
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Beaufort County Students are Years behind in their education.
Published: Wednesday, May 4th, 2022 @ 1:06 pm
By: Gary Carlton
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A full 85% of students in Maryland are not proficient in math, in large part due to the COVID-19 shutdowns of the past two years.
Published: Tuesday, March 15th, 2022 @ 10:14 am
By: Daily Wire
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The House is wasting little time addressing the challenges COVID-19 has posed to North Carolina.
Published: Monday, May 4th, 2020 @ 2:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. General Assembly is in session, but it’s unclear how long it may take lawmakers to deal with economic fallout caused by COVID-19.
Published: Sunday, May 3rd, 2020 @ 11:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The House Select Committee on COVID-19 Education working group has approved an education omnibus bill providing regulatory relief and support for North Carolina’s K-12 and higher education systems.
Published: Tuesday, April 28th, 2020 @ 12:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina hemp farmers are bracing for an onslaught of federal regulation.
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2019 @ 10:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Students attending the ECU Community School achieved growth during the 2018-19 school year, according to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’s annual report card.
Published: Wednesday, September 18th, 2019 @ 5:14 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The N.C. Department of Public Instruction released the 2018-19 state accountability results this week.
Published: Tuesday, September 17th, 2019 @ 5:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Despite low performance, NC Virtual Academy may get to raise its enrollment by 20% after the House approved legislation granting the enrollment growth.
Published: Sunday, July 21st, 2019 @ 10:10 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Those are the words of former UNC Law School Dean Judith Wegner who spoke to a reporter from the (Raleigh) News & Observer in May about her opposition to a proposed UNC Board of Governors resolution to prohibit UNC Centers and Institutes from participating in litigation.
Published: Wednesday, August 16th, 2017 @ 5:47 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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That’s what I’d tell NC Policy Watch crybabies who continue to assert the policies of Republican legislators don’t support public education
Published: Sunday, July 9th, 2017 @ 12:07 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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One-Third Of Recent High School Graduates Need Remediation
Published: Friday, November 4th, 2016 @ 8:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's back-to-school time and parents everywhere want not only to encourage their children academically, but also want to know how their child's school is performing.
Published: Thursday, October 13th, 2016 @ 11:45 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Charters outperform districts on state tests
Published: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2016 @ 4:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican Governor Pat McCrory and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Roy Cooper are both opponents of excessive and duplicative standardized testing. Surveys suggest that parents, teachers, and administrators believe that "over-testing" is a problem
Published: Saturday, August 6th, 2016 @ 6:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Almost exactly 15 years ago, I wrote an education reform plan for the John Locke Foundation entitled “Reach for the STARS."
Published: Thursday, January 28th, 2016 @ 11:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Parents are used to report cards for their school-aged kids. Now, in North Carolina, public schools themselves receive letter grades, A through F.
Published: Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015 @ 5:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When the N.C. Department of Public Instruction released school performance grades earlier this month, public school advocacy groups noted that the grades reflected the socio-economic makeup of the schools. They observed that schools with few students receiving free and reduced-price lunches...
Published: Sunday, March 1st, 2015 @ 10:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When the N.C. Department of Public Instruction (DPI) released school performance grades earlier this month, public school advocacy groups noted that the grades reflected the socioeconomic makeup of the schools. They observed that schools with few free and reduced price lunch students generally...
Published: Wednesday, February 18th, 2015 @ 3:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One would think that the process of comparing and reporting test scores would be a straightforward matter. In North Carolina, state standardized testing is anything but straightforward.
Published: Monday, September 15th, 2014 @ 12:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Standardized testing for public school students concluded last month, but the debate about the state's accountability system continues.
Published: Thursday, July 17th, 2014 @ 12:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In February, I published a column titled, "Data Do Not Reflect Claims of Teacher Dissatisfaction," which pointed out that state and national data disagree with those who claim that the teaching profession is increasingly constrained and unhappy.
Published: Tuesday, June 17th, 2014 @ 6:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recently, I have encountered folks who blame the N.C. General Assembly for introducing the Common Core State Standards to North Carolina.
Published: Monday, March 10th, 2014 @ 4:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two new permanent commissions should help North Carolina leaders decide whether to modify or replace controversial Common Core public school standards.
Published: Wednesday, February 26th, 2014 @ 10:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two new permanent commissions should help North Carolina leaders decide whether to modify or replace controversial Common Core public school standards. That's the recommendation the John Locke Foundation's top education expert puts forward in a new Spotlight report.
Published: Monday, February 24th, 2014 @ 5:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There's nothing worse than a complainer - except a complainer who expects someone else to solve a problem. So I have a challenge for conservatives who, with good reason, rail against the state of public education in North Carolina: If you truly believe individual responsibility is a fu
Published: Friday, November 22nd, 2013 @ 1:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Have you ever gotten a cringe-worthy progress report or report card from your child's school? Just about every parent will have this experience at least once. If the grade isn't what you expected or wanted, do you blame the school for sending you the report card? Of course not. Like it or not...
Published: Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 @ 3:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is continuing a two-year-old program expanding the elementary school day by 45 minutes to seven hours, even though many...
Published: Tuesday, July 30th, 2013 @ 11:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Around the nation this spring, simmering parental anger over student testing boiled over into all-out revolt. As testing increasingly co-opts curriculum and classroom, many parents have grown weary of talk, talk, talk. No glib platitudes can quell this uprising; instead, moms and dads are taking...
Published: Monday, July 15th, 2013 @ 9:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recently, I've been subjected to some insinuations that my Christianity and my conservatism are in question because I dare to raise questions about the leadership of the North Carolina House of Representatives.
Published: Wednesday, May 29th, 2013 @ 5:29 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The following article was originally written and distributed in January 2006.
Published: Thursday, November 22nd, 2012 @ 12:47 am
By: Fern Shubert
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High school graduation rates improved in 2011, increasing to 77.7 percent, the highest four-year graduation rate ever reported in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, August 4th, 2011 @ 6:09 pm
By: Anna Deatherage
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