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A bill filed Thursday in the N.C. Senate would repeal a law permitting state employee organizations to draft dues automatically from members’ paychecks.
Published: Thursday, February 23rd, 2023 @ 10:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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To help recruit and retain teachers, more school districts are considering programs to provide affordable housing to teachers
Published: Sunday, July 3rd, 2022 @ 4:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Roy Cooper is the classic "do as a say not as a do" politician.
Published: Saturday, October 17th, 2020 @ 12:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Roy Cooper once again is displaying his blatant hypocrisy on corporate taxes.
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2019 @ 12:48 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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About this time last year, progressive activists and Democratic politicians were trumpeting the news that North Carolina was 49th in the country in friendliness to teachers, according to a study by the website WalletHub.
Published: Tuesday, October 1st, 2019 @ 4:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The state would bypass local school districts and give each N.C. public school teacher access to $400 for classroom supplies under a bill unveiled Wednesday, April 3.
Published: Wednesday, April 17th, 2019 @ 11:33 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper today released his recommended budget for 2019-2021, Investments for a Determined North Carolina
Published: Friday, March 8th, 2019 @ 6:04 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Bickering over the state education budget opened the floodgates to a red sea in downtown Raleigh
Published: Monday, May 28th, 2018 @ 4:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Joined by North Carolina teachers and citing concerns that the conference budget passed by the legislature shortchanges North Carolina's public schools and economy, Governor Cooper announced today that he will veto the budget
Published: Tuesday, June 27th, 2017 @ 4:36 pm
By: Governor's Office
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This past Sunday, editors at the News & Observer ran Tell the truth on NC school funding. Not surprisingly, the N&O gives their side of school funding.
Published: Friday, December 9th, 2016 @ 3:40 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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In an interview published on the Capital and Main website, former U.S. Labor Secretary and University of California at Berkeley public policy professor Robert Reich opined that, despite the importance of their jobs, teachers are underpaid compared to supposedly less important professionals.
Published: Saturday, July 18th, 2015 @ 10:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina constitution requires a balanced budget. Gov. Pat and Speaker Thom got together and submitted a revised budget plan that does not balance.
Published: Thursday, July 3rd, 2014 @ 6:06 am
By: Brant Clifton
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All our lives we've heard aphorisms about money. Truisms like, "the love of money is the root of all evil," "a penny saved is a penny earned," "a fool and his money are soon parted," and "you can't spend the same dollar twice."
Published: Tuesday, June 24th, 2014 @ 2:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory announced a sweeping array of education initiatives that will increase teacher pay, provide in-state tuition for newly separated veterans, increase funding for textbooks and establish salary supplements for teachers who obtain advanced degrees in a subject they are teaching.
Published: Monday, May 12th, 2014 @ 5:01 pm
By: Chris Downey
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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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