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The final of three debates on challenges facing North Carolina’s education system is slated for Wednesday evening, November 1, in Benson at the W. J. Barefoot Auditorium. This time experts will focus on education funding in North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, March 10th, 2024 @ 2:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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While teacher salaries generally dominate employee benefit discussions during budget debates, other state employees stand to receive higher pay. But the House, Senate, and Gov. Roy Cooper all have different notions about how much to increase compensation
Published: Monday, June 5th, 2017 @ 3:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican legislative leaders finally unveiled their proposed biennial state budget. (Geez, it's about time, folks.) The budget is now subject to votes by each legislative chamber and action by Governor McCrory.
Published: Friday, October 2nd, 2015 @ 4:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Education Endowment is a special fund created in 2014 to help supplement teacher compensation for North Carolina's highest performing teachers.
Published: Thursday, September 18th, 2014 @ 6:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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For fiscal year 2014-15, North Carolina's General Fund budget rose 2.2 percent to $21.1 billion.
Published: Thursday, August 21st, 2014 @ 12:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As often happens at the North Carolina General Assembly, the new fiscal year has begun with the House and Senate not yet finished with a budget-adjustment bill. Medicaid funding, teacher compensation, and a few other issues continue to divide the two chambers.
Published: Friday, July 4th, 2014 @ 11:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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We have heard it time and time again. Teachers are demoralized, depressed, and dissatisfied. If lawmakers do not do something fast, then thousands of teachers will leave the state or the profession.
Published: Friday, February 7th, 2014 @ 11:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory discussed new and ongoing initiatives to power the economy, improve education and increase state government efficiency in 2014 during a news conference Monday at the Executive Residence with his cabinet.
Published: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014 @ 4:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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