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Today, North Carolina lawmakers have declared war on equality with the passage of House Bill 171 (HB 171) and Senate Bills 227 and 558, dismantling decades of civil rights progress and systematically excluding entire communities from public life.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2025 @ 7:32 am
By: ENC NOW
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Sen. Amy Galey, R-Alamance, explains the new “Parents’ Bill of Rights” law as parents across North Carolina send their children back to school.
Published: Thursday, December 7th, 2023 @ 8:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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NC Schools Must now follow “Parents Bill of Rights.” Here’s how things will change that’s the title of an article in yesterday’s Raleigh News and Observer that describes how the recently passed legislation will impact the classroom and our schools.
Published: Friday, November 3rd, 2023 @ 2:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After a failed attempt last year, advocates of the Parents’ Bill of Rights (PBR) succeeded this session in passing legislation (SB 49) that enshrines parental rights and helps to correct the current imbalance of power between parents and schools across North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, September 24th, 2023 @ 1:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper could soon be uncapping his veto pen yet again after the North Carolina General Assembly gave final approval to a Parents’ Bill of Rights on June 29.
Published: Sunday, September 17th, 2023 @ 3:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, the North Carolina House Committee on K-12 Education approved Senate Bill 49, which would enshrine a Parents’ Bill of Rights into law.
Published: Saturday, July 29th, 2023 @ 11:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The House of Representatives, in a virtually straight party-line vote, passed the Parents Bill of Rights bill on Friday. Democrats unanimously opposed the measure; they were joined by five Republicans
Published: Tuesday, April 11th, 2023 @ 5:06 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Senate Bill 49, the Parents’ Bill of Rights, would correct the current imbalance of authority between schools and parents, delineate parental rights, and end practices that limit parental decision-making
Published: Tuesday, April 11th, 2023 @ 7:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Left continues to hyperventilate over North Carolina’s proposed Parents’ Bill of Rights, SB 49. In yesterday’s Raleigh News and Observer, Sara Pequeno joined in the fray when she opined that the legislation “could torpedo school funding for mental health.”
Published: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 @ 12:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the proposed Parents’ Bill of Rights in the N.C. Senate.
Published: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 @ 11:28 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Senate passed a bill Tuesday evening establishing rights for parents with school-aged children. The Parents’ Bill of Rights passed 29 to 18 and went to the House Tuesday. If the House passes it as well, it would go to Governor Cooper, who will likely veto it.
Published: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 @ 6:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Tuesday, legislative Democrats held a press conference introducing “The Parents’ and Students’ Bill of Rights.” The Democrats’ bill was filed after Republicans filed the Parents’ Bill of Rights, scheduled to be considered on the N.C. Senate floor Tuesday afternoon.
Published: Monday, February 20th, 2023 @ 11:48 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Tuesday, an ACLU North Carolina lobbyist, Kristie Puckett Williams, made graphic, sexually harassing comments to conservative radio host Pete Kaliner during a Twitter discussion regarding N.C. Senate Bill 49, the Parents’ Bill of Rights.
Published: Monday, February 20th, 2023 @ 2:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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You don’t need to go to Florida for sunshine. Sunshine is lighting the way here in North Carolina as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, also presented as the “Parents Bill of Rights” bill is making its way through the legislature, soon to become law.
Published: Sunday, February 19th, 2023 @ 9:53 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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On Wednesday, N.C. Senate Republicans held a press conference introducing the Parents’ Bill of Rights. which they say would give parents more control over the direction of their child’s education and require more transparency in public schools.
Published: Monday, February 13th, 2023 @ 8:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Yesterday the North Carolina State Senate filed Senate Bill 49, also known as the "Parents' Bill of Rights." This bill is the first step to ensure that North Carolina parents can be in charge of their children’s educational destiny.
Published: Monday, February 6th, 2023 @ 12:52 pm
By: ENC NOW
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Bolstering the Case for a Taxpayer Bill of Rights
Published: Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022 @ 1:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In this first episode of Policy Pizza, education policy expert Terry Stoops joins us to discuss the greatness of western Pennsylvania pizza and the benefits of a Parents’ Bill of Rights in education.
Published: Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 @ 7:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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“The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are the Status quo – not 2022 legislation on the books for nine weeks.“
Published: Tuesday, November 15th, 2022 @ 8:14 am
By: Daily Wire
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House Bill 755 — the Parents Bill of Rights
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2022 @ 5:45 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses Locke’s proposed Parents’ Bill of Rights.
Published: Friday, July 15th, 2022 @ 12:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A new poll shows widespread support for the Parents' Bill of Rights in North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, July 5th, 2022 @ 7:43 am
By: Carolina Journal
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HB755, also known as the Parents’ Bill of Rights, isn’t the most egregious legislation to ever pass our General Assembly. That crown will forever belong to HB2, the so-called bathroom bill.
Published: Friday, June 17th, 2022 @ 1:02 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The N.C. Senate has passed a Parents' Bill of Rights in a 28-18 vote.
Published: Tuesday, June 7th, 2022 @ 7:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Christmas came early this year for Coloradans. Yesterday’s Denver Post read: “single filers will get $400 and joint filers will get $800 this summer in money the state must refund as a result of the voter-approved Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights.”
Published: Friday, May 6th, 2022 @ 10:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, the John Locke Foundation released “A Parents’ Bill of Rights for North Carolina.”
Published: Thursday, May 5th, 2022 @ 4:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The John Locke Foundation offers a Parents’ Bill of Rights to reassert parental authority over their child’s education
Published: Sunday, April 24th, 2022 @ 12:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The current version of Senate Bill 717 would add a Taxpayer Bill of Rights to the state constitution and provide two conforming amendments to carry it out.
Published: Sunday, April 25th, 2021 @ 7:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On September 17, 1787, the American founders signed the U.S. Constitution. The greatest strength of our Bill of Rights and Constitution is that it places limits on government.
Published: Monday, September 21st, 2020 @ 7:54 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina has long been a proponent of a Bill of Rights. In its 1776 constitution, the state of North Carolina chose to begin its constitution with a Bill of Rights.
Published: Thursday, September 17th, 2020 @ 12:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When the American people were debating whether to adopt our Constitution, North Carolina (a hotbed of anti-federalism) took the lead in ensuring the document was amended to include a bill of rights.
Published: Monday, January 20th, 2020 @ 6:53 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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On June 22, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly referred to as the G.I. Bill, to ensure that our service members returning home from World War II would receive the care and benefits they earned while defending freedom from tyranny
Published: Tuesday, June 25th, 2019 @ 12:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A few weeks ago I wrote an article about the US Constitution. I focused on the content of the Constitution.
Published: Thursday, February 28th, 2019 @ 1:54 am
By: Hood Richardson
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December 15 marks a very special day in our founding history - On that date in 1791, the first 14 states (Vermont had just been admitted to the Union as the 14th state), ratified the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution, known collectively as our Bill of Rights.
Published: Monday, January 21st, 2019 @ 3:53 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Patrick Henry to the Virginia Convention to Ratify the US Constitution, in June 1788: "The great object is that every man be armed."
Published: Saturday, June 10th, 2017 @ 7:04 am
By: Diane Rufino
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It's such an integral part of the Constitution, adopted during the earliest years of government under that document, that few people ponder the prospect of a constitution without a Bill of Rights
Published: Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017 @ 4:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Among the basic guarantees of liberty provided by the Bill of Rights is the right to confront one's accusers during a criminal trial
Published: Monday, September 5th, 2016 @ 6:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I'm so old, I can remember when the left was committed to upholding the Bill of Rights.
Published: Sunday, July 3rd, 2016 @ 5:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the 1787-89 debates over ratifying the U.S. Constitution, for example, North Carolina's population was divided over the necessity of a new constitution and what became known as the Bill of Rights.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 12:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As I am sure you know, Carolina Journal is the monthly newspaper of the John Locke Foundation. Formed in 1990, the organization is named after the great English political philosopher who penned the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina in 1669 and the English Bill of Rights 20 years later.
Published: Friday, October 2nd, 2015 @ 8:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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