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House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) announced on Wednesday that he is retiring from Congress because the institution and the country in general is largely broken beyond repair.
Published: Thursday, February 22nd, 2024 @ 9:45 am
By: Daily Wire
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Funding supports expansion of RISE Fellowship to retain teachers in underserved communities
Published: Sunday, August 6th, 2023 @ 8:12 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper unveiled what he called his “First in Opportunity” budget at a press conference Wednesday, proposing to spend $32.95 billion in the first year of the biennium and $34.23 billion in the second year.
Published: Monday, April 10th, 2023 @ 7:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper’s recent executive order to remove the college degree requirement for most state jobs comes at a time when recruitment for some state offices is desperately low.
Published: Tuesday, April 4th, 2023 @ 11:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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NC Dept. of Ag has 278 vacancies, with a turnover rate of 19%.
Published: Sunday, April 2nd, 2023 @ 2:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood predicted that Amazon could use more robots than humans by 2030.
Published: Saturday, February 11th, 2023 @ 7:07 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Members of the North Carolina Senate were sworn into office Wednesday, marking the beginning of the 2023 long session for the state legislature.
Published: Sunday, January 29th, 2023 @ 10:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Focusing on numbers never makes an interesting article, but the Chief Deputy has misled the public to such a degree that a boring, although enlightening, response is warranted.
Published: Monday, April 25th, 2022 @ 2:34 am
By: Harry Meredith, Jr.
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Vice President Kamala Harris took some heat online for her failure to give a coherent answer when pressed about sky-high inflation for Americans during a CBS interview on Sunday.
Published: Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 @ 8:26 am
By: Daily Wire
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Two lawmakers have introduced bills to grant local government the authority to provide local housing to teachers and other government employees
Published: Thursday, June 28th, 2018 @ 10:10 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Robeson Should Welcome Help from NC's Innovative School District
Published: Sunday, December 31st, 2017 @ 1:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week the News & Observer reported on how Durham Public Schools (DPS) is debating a proposal to build 24 one and two bedroom apartments and then rent them to teachers at below market rates
Published: Friday, October 20th, 2017 @ 3:54 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Draft Teacher Turnover Report Shows Improvement
Published: Monday, January 9th, 2017 @ 3:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Despite the claims of some, North Carolina is not a "net exporter of teachers."
Published: Thursday, August 4th, 2016 @ 7:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Despite the claims of some, North Carolina is not a "net exporter of teachers."
Published: Tuesday, April 5th, 2016 @ 2:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, the N.C. Department of Public Instruction released the state's annual teacher turnover report. The overall turnover rate for the 2014-15 school year was 14.8 percent, a 0.7 percentage point increase from a year prior. While the actual rate of teacher turnover is an important metric...
Published: Sunday, October 25th, 2015 @ 3:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, the NC Department of Public Instruction (DPI) released the state's annual teacher turnover report. The overall turnover rate for the 2014-2015 school year climbed to 14.84 percent, a 0.7 percent increase from a year prior. The release of the report generated extensive media coverage, a...
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2015 @ 7:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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No report is more controversial, misunderstood, and misread than the Annual Report on Teachers Leaving the Profession.
Published: Tuesday, October 6th, 2015 @ 2:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The State Board of Education's decision to intervene in the affairs of the Halifax County Schools is hardly surprising. Decades of mismanagement and dysfunction have led to high teacher turnover rates and appalling student achievement outcomes.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 6:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week the N.C. State Board of Education sent a letter to the Halifax County Board of Education declaring that state education officials
Published: Wednesday, August 19th, 2015 @ 3:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The end of the school year is in sight, which means that North Carolinians will be subjected to a slew of "take this job and shove it" missives from the state's public school teachers. As usual, the attention given to them will be overblown.
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 1:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Monday, May 18th, 2015 @ 11:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Public school superintendents have been in the news lately, and it's not been flattering. Desperate to move on from the contentious tenure of Superintendent Katie McGee, the Brunswick County Board of Education hired Edward Pruden in 2010 at a salary of $159,400 a year. Late last year, the school...
Published: Thursday, March 26th, 2015 @ 4:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Public schools superintendents have been in the news lately and it's not been flattering.
Published: Sunday, March 22nd, 2015 @ 6:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Paul Tine is now unaffiliated. UN-A-FFIL-I-ATED. Rest easy. Sleep well. Go on about your business. He's courageously gone off all by himself (favoring ObamaCare, opposing school choice, but caucusing with the GOP).
Published: Sunday, January 18th, 2015 @ 12:33 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Projections about a mass teacher exodus in North Carolina sparked by Republican legislative policies not only have failed to materialize, but also turnover rates declined last year, according to an annual report issued by the state Department of Public Instruction.
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 11:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University wants to entice new teachers in Pitt County to become students again.
Published: Thursday, December 18th, 2014 @ 7:09 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The Annual Report on Teachers Leaving the Profession is here!
Published: Friday, December 5th, 2014 @ 3:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory issued the following statement after a slight drop in teacher turnover was reported in the Annual Report on Teachers Leaving the Profession which is issued by the Department of Public Instruction.
Published: Sunday, November 2nd, 2014 @ 12:53 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The mainstream media is reporting that the Houston Independent School District will hold a job fair in Raleigh later this week. The folks from Houston promise on-the-spot hiring and a starting salary of $46,805.
Published: Tuesday, June 24th, 2014 @ 3:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina has a genuine teacher recruitment and retention crisis. But it has nothing to do with tales of teacher discontent spun by the mainstream media, special-interest groups, and teacher unions.
Published: Sunday, June 22nd, 2014 @ 4:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The annual teacher turnover report produced by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction shows the number of public schoolteachers who've left their jobs across the state during the past year.
Published: Sunday, June 15th, 2014 @ 2:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A week before each monthly NC State Board of Education (SBE) meeting, state board staff post an agenda and meeting materials on the board's meeting website.
Published: Friday, December 6th, 2013 @ 11:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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