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Not even two weeks into the new school year, at least nine Wake County public schools have already been forced to dismiss students early or close entirely because of HVAC issues.
Published: Sunday, November 26th, 2023 @ 9:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Funding for Wake Schools Would Be Up 38% Over 5 Years Ago, Despite Falling Attendance
Published: Tuesday, May 30th, 2023 @ 5:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Wake County Schools implemented a student assignment program years ago to provide a more diverse educational environment and expend educational opportunity for more students.
Published: Tuesday, November 15th, 2022 @ 2:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While less than half of NC students are proficient in reading, math, and science, Wake Co. focuses on unjust goal of "equity"
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2022 @ 12:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper declares state of emergency as Duke Energy responds to potential power outages
Published: Monday, October 17th, 2022 @ 12:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona announced the National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2022.
Published: Sunday, October 2nd, 2022 @ 9:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ted Budd Offered a Positive Alternative to Encourage Folks to Get Back to Work but the Biden Administration Prefers to Pay People Not to Work and Cheri Beasley, Once Again, Was Happy to Support that Bad Biden Idea
Published: Thursday, August 18th, 2022 @ 11:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A group describing itself as "recognized leaders in the North Carolina business community" supports plaintiffs in the Leandro school funding legal dispute.
Published: Sunday, July 31st, 2022 @ 1:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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One of the biggest casualties of the pandemic has been the opportunity for our children to learn. Closed schools, the difficulty of pivoting to new learning platforms and upended schedules all contributed to a general sense that kids were falling behind academically.
Published: Tuesday, July 19th, 2022 @ 8:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State lawmakers have approved over $500 million in school safety funding since 2013, and Gov. Pat McCrory created the North Carolina Center for Safer Schools that year
Published: Friday, July 8th, 2022 @ 8:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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What is happening to all that money Wake County Schools (WCPSS) is getting for covid relief?
Published: Thursday, July 7th, 2022 @ 11:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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That nod to the famous line from Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist may be what some Wake County commissioners are thinking after learning that Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) Superintendent Cathy Moore is asking Wake County Commissioners for approximately $600 million
Published: Monday, April 25th, 2022 @ 2:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A court ruling this week against the funding scheme for Greenville’s red-light camera enforcement program could lead to questions about similar programs in three other N.C. cities.
Published: Sunday, March 20th, 2022 @ 8:49 am
By: Daily Wire
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Parents across North Carolina want their voices heard on what’s best for their children, especially after two years of lockdowns, mask mandates, and changing curriculum.
Published: Sunday, February 27th, 2022 @ 10:11 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Wake County Public School System announced in a letter to parents on its website Friday, Feb. 18, that masks will become optional in their schools “in the coming days,” while Lee and Wayne County school boards voted to immediately lift mask mandates.
Published: Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022 @ 12:06 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper on Thursday, Feb.17, called for an end to local mask mandates for schools and local governments, though state lawmakers are seemingly forcing his hand.
Published: Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022 @ 8:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A rally on Tuesday called to end the mask mandate in Wake County schools. More than 100 parents, grandparents, and students held signs and demonstrated in the cold outside Wake public school headquarters in Cary during a school board meeting.
Published: Saturday, February 19th, 2022 @ 5:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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There is a known revolutionary in the NCAE. Does this frighten you? It should, and here's why!
Published: Thursday, April 15th, 2021 @ 10:49 am
By: John Woodard
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Mental health experts who are also parents with students in Wake County Public Schools are sounding an alarm over a rising mental health crisis due to a lack of full-time classroom instruction.
Published: Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021 @ 8:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State House lawmakers from two of the state's largest school districts are calling on Governor Roy Cooper to stop delaying and sign Senate Bill 37, which ensures every family in North Carolina has access to in-person learning in K-12 public schools if they so choose.
Published: Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021 @ 10:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, the North Carolina House approved bipartisan legislation (Senate Bill 37) to ensure families have the ability to choose between in-person instruction or remote learning in K-12 public schools.
Published: Saturday, February 13th, 2021 @ 4:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina has experienced just about everything imaginable this year, so with one month to go let’s look at what to expect.
Published: Tuesday, December 1st, 2020 @ 6:20 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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In the course of covering Gov. Roy Cooper’s nightmare back to school plans, Civitas has been surveying and collecting responses from parents about the possibility of their children returning to school on a part-time basis
Published: Wednesday, July 8th, 2020 @ 1:04 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Parents shouldn’t be afraid to homeschool their children, says Sam Sorbo, actress, author, and homeschooling activist.
Published: Sunday, April 19th, 2020 @ 4:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Last week I posted the Rhino Times story on Guilford County Schools’ plan to bus students to the polls for early voting.
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2020 @ 8:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. State Board of Education has delayed approval of two charter school applicants, North Raleigh Charter Academy and Wake Preparatory Academy, because of concerns expressed by the Wake County Board of Education and members of the PTA.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2019 @ 10:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2011, Thom Tillis, Phil Berger, and the Republican leadership in the N.C. General Assembly removed the 100-school school cap included in the 1996 law that authorized the creation of charter schools, which are tuition-free public schools that have more freedom than district-run public schools.
Published: Friday, June 7th, 2019 @ 9:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Senate majority leader is rebutting claims from the Wake County school board that state government is underfunding North Carolina’s largest school system.
Published: Sunday, May 26th, 2019 @ 6:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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At the end of the 2010-11 school year, the state had 99 charter schools that enrolled around 41,200 children, and thousands of children remained on waitlists, hoping to be among the lucky few selected in an enrollment lottery.
Published: Friday, May 24th, 2019 @ 4:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Panelists at Campbell Law School offered a different path to resolving conflicts — in the criminal justice system and in disciplinary situations in K-12 schools.
Published: Monday, December 3rd, 2018 @ 12:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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