My Locke colleagues Dr. Terry Stoops and Dr. Bob Luebke in the Center for Effective Education are the experts in school choice and education policy, so be sure to follow their analysis of this and other school choice data.
Published: Saturday, February 5th, 2022 @ 9:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Saturday, January 15th, 2022 @ 8:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Dr. Bob Luebke, senior fellow at the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, responds to a mainstream media attack against North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program.
Published: Friday, January 14th, 2022 @ 1:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The News & Observer is doing its darnedest to ignore the growing criticism of Common Core standards. The paper's recent editorial "Defending Common Core" was an exercise in putting lipstick on a pig.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 10:32 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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In June, Wake County commissioners approved an extra $44.6 million for Wake County Public Schools (WCPSS). About half the money will go for raises and additional pay; $16 million for teacher pay, $1.8 million for teachers who take on extra duties, and another $6 million for 3 percent raises for...
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2015 @ 10:28 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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This series, entitled "Cut This, Go Home," includes several budget items that should no longer receive taxpayer funding because they fall well outside the legitimate, core functions of government.
Published: Monday, October 12th, 2015 @ 3:45 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Those who watch state government have had plenty to talk about since the General Assembly passed the state's new $21.7 billion state budget. Since education is the single largest item in the state budget, here are three things you probably didn't hear about education spending.
Published: Thursday, October 1st, 2015 @ 5:56 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Sixty-plus days past a July 1st deadline and North Carolina still has no state budget. One issue that many think is prolonging the current stalemate is what to do about teacher assistants (TAs). The best way to break the impasse is for the General Assembly to follow the state Senate's lead and...
Published: Monday, September 28th, 2015 @ 8:13 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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If you're a parent of a child starting school this fall, you have plenty to worry about. First of all, you hope your child likes school, can make friends and gets a good teacher, and, oh yeah, can also find their way onto the right bus. Once that gets taken care of, parents can also worry about...
Published: Saturday, September 26th, 2015 @ 10:59 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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After nearly eight months of lengthy and heated discussion, Republican leaders in the North Carolina Senate and House have come to a consensus on a $21.7 billion state budget for the next two years. Since education comprises the single biggest item in the state budget, there is a lot of interest...
Published: Monday, September 21st, 2015 @ 12:16 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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One of the most popular options for expanding educational opportunity is the Education Savings Account (ESA). Currently five states - Arizona, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee and Nevada - have passed ESA legislation, and at least 10 other states have bills in the works.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 10:16 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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A new Civitas Poll of registered North Carolina voters shows they are open to options for schools, assessment of students, and education funding.
Published: Friday, July 17th, 2015 @ 12:04 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Ever since Republicans gained majorities in the North Carolina General Assembly in 2010 and won the governor's office in 2012, Democrats and Progressives have lamented the decline of higher education and especially the University of North Carolina System. Critics of North Carolina Republicans...
Published: Monday, June 8th, 2015 @ 11:28 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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School choice remains a top education priority for the Republican-dominated North Carolina General Assembly. While much of the focus this legislative session has been on stabilizing and expanding existing programs and quietly waiting on the state Supreme Court to decide on the constitutionality...
Published: Thursday, May 14th, 2015 @ 4:22 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Charter schools increase segregation - that's the flawed conclusion of a recent National Bureau of Economic Research report by three Duke University Professors: Helen Ladd, Charles Clotfelter and John Holbein.
Published: Monday, May 4th, 2015 @ 1:01 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about why I thought President Obama's Community College Proposal was a bad idea. His plan to provide up to two years of free tuition to community college students who maintained a 2.5 G.P.A would cost $6 billion a year, is ill conceived, and based on fallacious assumptions.
Published: Sunday, April 19th, 2015 @ 1:00 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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For the parents who think data collection and privacy are not significant issues in our public schools, you might want to read HB 13. The bill has already been approved by the House and is working its way through the Senate. In brief the bill amends the current health assessment form requirement...
Published: Thursday, April 16th, 2015 @ 11:42 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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America needs a better-educated work force - but President Obama's plan for "free" community college is not the way to get it.
Published: Wednesday, March 25th, 2015 @ 3:57 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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In "Maintaining rigor and listening to teachers in the debate over academic standards," Keith Poston of the Public School Forum argues against changing the Common Core math and English standards, since he believes members of the state's Academic Standards Review Commission (ASRC) are working to...
Published: Sunday, March 15th, 2015 @ 2:51 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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In his article "Maintaining rigor and listening to teachers in the debate over academic standards," Keith Poston argues against revisions to the current Common Core standards and the importance of ensuring teachers have a voice in this discussion. In a two-part response, I argue, in part one...
Published: Friday, March 6th, 2015 @ 8:09 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Wake County Public Schools finds itself in the middle of a book controversy. Concerned parents at Highcroft Drive Elementary School have voiced concerns about the use of highly questionable books by fourth graders at the school. A blogger named NC Citizen, who wishes to remain anonymous, wrote...
Published: Friday, February 20th, 2015 @ 11:11 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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This is National School Choice Week and there are many reasons to celebrate this modest but important idea. School choice is based on a simple truth: Parents know their children better than anyone else. As such, parents - not the government - should control their children's education and where...
Published: Friday, February 13th, 2015 @ 4:40 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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"Do you have any interest in reporting the facts?" That's the question I'd like to ask News & Observer editors after reading the recent editorial, "Time for Wake Schools to Build Back."
Published: Sunday, February 1st, 2015 @ 9:44 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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It's now official: Beginning with the 2015-16 school year, all North Carolina public high schools will be on a 10-point grading scale. Last week the State Board of Education approved the plan to have schools throw out the standard A-B-C-D-F system in favor of a new scale that widens the grade...
Published: Tuesday, January 13th, 2015 @ 10:49 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Civitas recently published findings on the cost of a high school diploma in North Carolina and academic performance - and the results undercut the myth that money alone can buy good education.
Published: Tuesday, January 6th, 2015 @ 7:04 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Before Wake County asks taxpayers to pay for more buildings, the school system needs to ensure its population estimates are accurate.
Published: Saturday, December 13th, 2014 @ 12:56 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Reporter Lynn Bonner and the News and Observer showed us once again why people have stopped buying newspapers: Reporters keep trying to make the news, not report it.
Published: Saturday, December 6th, 2014 @ 4:12 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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It appears the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) have been providing free office space for years to the local branch of an organization with close ties to state and national, politically-active teacher unions.
Published: Monday, December 1st, 2014 @ 10:54 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A new survey suggests that North Carolina teachers are leery of the implementation of Common Core standards, with nearly two-thirds favoring slowing down or halting the process.
Published: Sunday, September 8th, 2013 @ 6:13 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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