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Democrat Mo Green is handily besting Republican Michele Morrow in total fundraising to date in the state’s race for superintendent of public instruction, according to recent campaign disclosures.
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 6:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The little-known North Carolina Textbook Commission was caught in the Senate primary election crossfire this week, after being painted as a body delivering “woke” politics to N.C. classrooms.
Published: Monday, May 2nd, 2022 @ 12:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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When the State Board of Education added an audit report during a meeting April 30, state Superintendent Mark Johnson called the decision petty.
Published: Friday, May 8th, 2020 @ 5:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Hurricane Florence severely damaged schools across North Carolina and left hundreds of thousands of children without homes or classrooms
Published: Saturday, October 6th, 2018 @ 9:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Supreme Court has granted a temporary stay in a lawsuit involving State Superintendent Mark Johnson and the State Board of Education
Published: Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 @ 12:20 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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"In recent years North Carolina has spent millions to make school buildings safe from intruders and ensure that school and emergency personnel can respond promptly to every eventuality..."
Published: Wednesday, April 12th, 2017 @ 12:10 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Who Is (And Should Be) "In Charge" Of Education In NC?
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2017 @ 11:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The State Board of Education on Tuesday convened a special meeting to discuss the constitutionality of House Bill 17, but members adjourned without saying what they talked about or revealing their next move, if they have one
Published: Wednesday, December 21st, 2016 @ 4:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A move to rein in the appointment powers of Democratic Gov.-elect Roy Cooper moved swiftly through the GOP-controlled House on Thursday with almost no debate in committee before it reached the full House for approval.
Published: Sunday, December 18th, 2016 @ 7:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tuesday’s elections brought many surprises. Certainly one of the larger ones on the state level was Mark Johnson’s victory over State Superintendent June Atkinson
Published: Wednesday, November 16th, 2016 @ 8:07 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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While teacher pay raises headlined education issues during North Carolina's 2016-17 legislative session, several other key policy changes were packed into the K-12 agenda, including measures that will provide performance-based bonuses for top educators across the state
Published: Thursday, July 7th, 2016 @ 9:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two months after the Academic Standards Review Commission issued its final report, the fate of Common Core in North Carolina is far from settled. The State Board of Education will discuss the report’s findings next month.
Published: Thursday, April 28th, 2016 @ 12:38 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Two months after the Academic Standards Review Commission issued its final report, the fate of Common Core in North Carolina is far from settled.
Published: Sunday, April 3rd, 2016 @ 12:13 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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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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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that North Carolina will receive more than $23 million to expand Wi-Fi access to K-12 classrooms throughout the state, bringing the total funding for this initiative to nearly $40 million.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 7:05 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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One of North Carolina’s largest school districts is calling on the College Board to delay for one year its new Advanced Placement U.S. History course, labeling it an inaccurate, deeply biased, revisionist view of America.
Published: Monday, August 25th, 2014 @ 8:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Senate proposed reducing the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) budget by 30 percent, while their counterparts in the House proposed a 1 percent cut.
Published: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014 @ 12:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Just try to implement some kind of frugality in public education budgets. You'll get all kinds of teeth-gnashing, wailing and crying about starving tha lil' chil'ren.
Published: Friday, April 18th, 2014 @ 1:30 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Liberal politicians, left-wing activists, and the teacher union may not like it, but the North Carolina General Assembly is not about to abandon its reforms of teacher hiring, firing, and compensation. That's because the lawmakers who enacted them are familiar with the empirical research about what
Published: Monday, April 7th, 2014 @ 8:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory congratulated this year's recipients of the Education and Workforce grants. The program is aimed at strengthening successful, innovative education programs that combine academic rigor and skills development with the goal of graduating every student both college and career ready.
Published: Monday, March 17th, 2014 @ 11:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Republican leaders in Raleigh are hoping to make political gains by getting behind Gov. Pat McCrory's call for a teacher pay raise:
Published: Sunday, February 16th, 2014 @ 1:12 am
By: Brant Clifton
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I am sure there is quite a bit of giggling in faculty lounges about the latest reports on UNC athletics. A former academic advisor to Carolina athletes is alleging that there are many players who read at a 4th to 8th grade level, and that at least one former basketball player could not even read.
Published: Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 @ 4:13 am
By: Brant Clifton
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More teachers are moving to other public schools in the North Carolina system than in the past, and that is the No. 1 reason cited for teacher turnover in 2012-13, according to a state Department of Public Instruction report prepared for the State Board of Education that will be submitted to the...
Published: Tuesday, November 5th, 2013 @ 11:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Misallocated mileage reimbursement funds found in two separate investigations of state agencies expose the difficulty of supervising work-at-home state employees and might be only part of a larger problem, State Auditor Beth Wood said.
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 4:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I was out at a social gathering last night, when I overheard a conversation that bothered me. These were some folks I know - low info voters who are moderate to conservative in their politics - who I know voted for Pat McCrory in 2012.
Published: Thursday, August 22nd, 2013 @ 8:52 am
By: Brant Clifton
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State Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson said her concerns about allowing students to use vouchers to offset the cost of private schooling was more a principled support of public schools' role in modern society than the effect vouchers could have in meeting individual children's...
Published: Tuesday, August 13th, 2013 @ 10:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's getting harder and harder to defend our new Republican governor here in North Carolina.
Published: Saturday, August 3rd, 2013 @ 2:36 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Instruction's Common Core Demystified, (CCD) we confronted DPI's claims that Common Core Standards are state-led and DPI's assertion that teachers will maintain control of the curriculum and how subjects are taught.
Published: Tuesday, July 30th, 2013 @ 9:33 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Usually, the media and the public look to the governor on state government policy questions.
Published: Thursday, June 6th, 2013 @ 10:36 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Chocowinity Middle School Principal Dale Cole was named the 2013 Wells Fargo North Carolina Principal of the Year during a luncheon ceremony held in Cary on Thursday, April 4.
Published: Sunday, April 7th, 2013 @ 1:22 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Gov. Pat McCrory unveiled his first budget Wednesday that would spend $20.6 billion in the next fiscal year, an increase of about 2.2 percent over the current fiscal year's General Fund budget. The total state budget, including...
Published: Sunday, March 24th, 2013 @ 12:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If Richard Alexander gets his way, he'll be North Carolina's next superintendent of public instruction. He'll also be the last.
Published: Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 @ 5:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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