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As of now, only two third-party candidates have announced their campaigns for NC governor and they are both libertarians, setting up a third party primary for Super Tuesday in March, 2024.
Published: Tuesday, August 1st, 2023 @ 2:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Pennsylvania GOP learned life lesson number one recently: don’t be so eager to work with the Left.
Published: Friday, July 21st, 2023 @ 10:55 am
By: Daily Wire
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RALEIGH: On May 23, Governor Roy Cooper sent a letter to all state legislators in the House and Senate urging them to make meaningful investments in North Carolina’s public schools, students and teachers and stop their plans to dismantle public education
Published: Sunday, July 2nd, 2023 @ 12:33 am
By: Governor's Office
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Oklahoma approved the first religious charter school in the U.S. on Monday.
Published: Thursday, June 22nd, 2023 @ 8:42 am
By: Daily Wire
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Opponents of school choice claim that private schools are unaccountable because they don’t have to satisfy every testing mandate required of traditional public schools, yet private schools are subject to the highest standard of accountability: parents
Published: Thursday, June 8th, 2023 @ 11:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina GOP should wear this declaration as a badge of honor.
Published: Wednesday, June 7th, 2023 @ 11:55 am
By: Daily Wire
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Policy choices in response to the pandemic increased parental demand for more educational options
Published: Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 @ 2:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Denies public schools are teaching Critical Race Theory, teachers are grooming and indoctrinating students, public schools push a woke agenda.
Published: Tuesday, April 18th, 2023 @ 1:45 am
By: Daily Wire
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How do voucher programs impact district achievement, segregation, or district per pupil expenditures?
Published: Thursday, December 29th, 2022 @ 3:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The first occurs during ages 2-7, with a second one occurring during adolescence. At the start of these periods, the number of connections (synapses) between brain cells (neurons) doubles.
Published: Tuesday, September 13th, 2022 @ 9:32 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Pennsylvania Lt. Governor and Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman sends at least one of his children to a private school with a five-figure tuition despite opposing voucher programs, according to a Friday report from The Washington Free Beacon.
Published: Thursday, September 8th, 2022 @ 9:27 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Supreme Court has given families and school choice advocates another reason to smile. In a 6-3 decision on Tuesday, the Court ruled in Carson v Makin that Maine violated the U.S. Constitution
Published: Thursday, July 14th, 2022 @ 6:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Arizona lawmakers passed a groundbreaking bill last week allowing the State’s 1.1 million students — from kindergarten to high school graduation — access to a school of their choice.
Published: Sunday, July 10th, 2022 @ 2:35 am
By: Daily Wire
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The highest scoring states in the rankings were Nebraska, North Dakota, Vermont, Kentucky, and South Dakota.
Published: Thursday, May 5th, 2022 @ 8:15 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In recognition of National School Choice Week, the John Locke Foundation asked 600 likely general election voters to assess the condition of education in North Carolina and opine on the state’s popular public and private school choice programs.
Published: Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 @ 7:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist offers an idea for responding to teachers unions that don’t want reopened schools.
Published: Monday, August 10th, 2020 @ 9:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Eric Boehm writes at Reason.com about the disconnect between teachers unions’ current demands and actual threats COVID-19 poses to schools reopening.
Published: Thursday, August 6th, 2020 @ 9:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The coronavirus recession, the Great Lockdown, and the Great Suppression are all terms used to describe the global economic downturn produced by COVID-19 mitigation measures.
Published: Saturday, May 9th, 2020 @ 10:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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These have not been good weeks for anyone who watches the landscape of public education.
Published: Tuesday, December 10th, 2019 @ 10:46 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Underneath the carefully choreographed unified exterior, signs are emerging that the coalition that helped to elect Democratic politicians for decades may be fracturing.
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2019 @ 8:08 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Underneath the carefully choreographed unified exterior, signs are emerging that the coalition that helped to elect Democratic politicians for decades may be fracturing.
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2019 @ 8:25 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina doesn’t just have a health care gap. Large fissures riddle the system.
Published: Thursday, September 19th, 2019 @ 12:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Homeschool enrollment hasn't topped the charts just yet. But at the rate it's growing, it's only a matter of time.
Published: Friday, July 19th, 2019 @ 10:00 pm
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: Wednesday, October 24th, 2018 @ 3:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Many are saying that the November 6 elections are all about Trump, a referendum either affirming or refuting his leadership
Published: Monday, October 22nd, 2018 @ 9:00 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Well, never mind, then. According to the only large-scale, randomized controlled trial of a statewide preschool initiative - Tennessee's pre-K program -intervening early to boost long-term academic performance doesn't work
Published: Sunday, August 12th, 2018 @ 6:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Researchers Paul DiPerna, Lindsey Burke, and Anne Ryland conducted a national survey of military households to assess their views on school-choice options, district schools, and careers in the military
Published: Friday, November 3rd, 2017 @ 5:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lawmakers and education scholars Monday night debated whether the state should sharpen its focus when overseeing tax-funded charter and private schools
Published: Sunday, October 22nd, 2017 @ 1:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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That’s what I’d tell NC Policy Watch crybabies who continue to assert the policies of Republican legislators don’t support public education
Published: Sunday, July 9th, 2017 @ 12:07 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Last week Duke’s Children Law Clinic released its study of North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), School Vouchers in North Carolina: The First Three Years
Published: Friday, March 17th, 2017 @ 2:19 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Yesterday, on February 7th, Betsy DeVos was confirmed by the Senate as US Secretary of Education in President Trump's administration.
Published: Wednesday, February 8th, 2017 @ 11:59 pm
By: Russell Allen
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North Carolina parents are asking for more education options for their children. Currently one of the most popular options is vouchers (Opportunity Scholarships and Special Needs Scholarships)
Published: Monday, January 2nd, 2017 @ 3:43 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to interact with undergraduate and doctoral students at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Education
Published: Monday, October 24th, 2016 @ 4:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's 2016-17 state budget responsibly limited the growth rate of state spending, wisely padded the state's Rainy Day Fund, cut taxes further and continued one of the most aggressive trends of teacher pay increases in the nation.
Published: Monday, October 3rd, 2016 @ 5:01 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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