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Political ideologies obviously wrap up education around specific policy reforms or even powerful quests to double down on the status quo
Published: Tuesday, January 9th, 2018 @ 8:15 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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With the economic collapse of the last decade brought on largely due to the bursting of the housing bubble, does anybody still think it a good idea for government to encourage investments in "underserved" populations
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 11:28 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The latest U.S. job report shows the official national unemployment rate dropping below 6 percent for the first time since before the recession
Published: Wednesday, October 8th, 2014 @ 12:37 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Two ultraliberal, out-of-state national groups are apparently flouting state law and violating Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules (§ 73.1212) in a campaign attacking legislators who favor bringing energy development and jobs to North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, September 24th, 2014 @ 4:57 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Now in its 30th year, the North Carolina Biotechnology Center uses taxpayer money in "support of biotechnology research, business, education and strategic policy statewide."
Published: Saturday, September 20th, 2014 @ 1:02 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Teacher pay. Medicaid. These are perhaps the two most contentious spending items in this year’s state budget. But continuing to fly under the radar is taxpayer-funded television programming.
Published: Monday, September 15th, 2014 @ 6:21 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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"I always want my students to start with facts, and the fact is Thom Tillis is terrible for education in North Carolina."
Published: Thursday, September 11th, 2014 @ 8:46 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Welcome back! I trust everyone had a good summer. We all need breaks and I hope you had a chance to unplug. You say that you were following Common Core until school let out. And now, well, you have no idea what's happened these last few months. No problem. It's time for a quick recap.
Published: Thursday, September 4th, 2014 @ 2:07 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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State government in NC is "cut to the bone" say progressive liberals.
Published: Monday, September 1st, 2014 @ 1:25 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Imagine talking with a friend who tells you that he's been forced to support the Duke basketball team for the past five years, even though he doesn't like the Blue Devils.
Published: Sunday, August 31st, 2014 @ 10:00 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The Advancement Project, in a press release dated August 21, announced that the North Carolina NAACP was appealing U.S. District Judge Thomas D. Schroeder’s decision earlier this month to deny a preliminary injunction to block certain provisions of VIVA in the November 2014 election.
Published: Thursday, August 28th, 2014 @ 5:11 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Pat Hensley bristles at being called a politician, and until her June retirement she held a supposedly nonpartisan position as Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources for Catawba County Schools.
Published: Tuesday, August 26th, 2014 @ 10:13 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The State Board of Elections will meet this Thursday at 1 p.m. The SBOE is meeting to appoint new county board of elections members.
Published: Wednesday, August 20th, 2014 @ 11:04 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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News accounts of the recently-passed $21.1 billion General Fund budget focus primarily on the teacher pay raise provided by budget writers.
Published: Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 10:50 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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As part of a campaign to inform employees and union workers of their rights, the Civitas Institute will be educating North Carolina teachers and other school employees about how they can give themselves an average $450 a year pay increase by leaving the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE)
Published: Saturday, August 9th, 2014 @ 1:26 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Recent comments from Rev. William Barber, self-appointed spokesman for the “Moral Monday” protests and leader of the NC state chapter of the NAACP, confirm that his vision for society endorses an aggressive use of violence against innocent individuals, and seeks to negate morality itself.
Published: Friday, August 8th, 2014 @ 6:59 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A parade of witnesses came to testify against North Carolina’s new voting reforms – but a look at their backgrounds shows they all have ties to the radical liberal network of groups known as Blueprint NC and/or have strong ties to the Democratic Party.
Published: Friday, August 8th, 2014 @ 12:57 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Trains are notoriously hard to slow down – even when we need them to.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 8:25 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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It is clear to any observer that the Federal government has grown to an untenable size, and that it has become increasingly more abusive of its powers.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 4:36 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A recent blog post published by a liberal organization outlines the experiences of two students who sought to acquire free state-issued voter photo IDs from the NC DMV.
Published: Sunday, August 3rd, 2014 @ 11:27 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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As a federal court case regarding election reform laws passed by North Carolina legislators in 2013 has become a major national news item, we await a judge's ruling in the preliminary injunction hearing.
Published: Wednesday, July 30th, 2014 @ 7:32 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The left has been howling about how the new voter reform law will discriminate against minority and young voters. Being a politically active college student myself, I decided to find out how hard it is to register to vote.
Published: Monday, July 28th, 2014 @ 4:16 pm
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A hearing that liberal groups hoped would undermine North Carolina voting reform instead appears to have revealed their true objectives.
Published: Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 @ 6:07 pm
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The News and Observer has come up with another delusion about Common Core State Standards: that the only explanation for opposition to the standards "is that [NC] GOP leaders are being led around by tea party extremists."
Published: Wednesday, July 9th, 2014 @ 10:58 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The online dictionary defines “pork barrel” spending as “a government appropriation, bill, or policy that supplies funds for local improvements designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents.”
Published: Monday, July 7th, 2014 @ 8:35 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Much has been written about the attorneys the Governor and the legislative leaders have hired to defend the Voter Information Verification Act (VIVA) against lawsuits brought by the NC-NAACP, the ACLU and the U.S. Justice Department. In contrast, to date, there have been no stories spotlighting the
Published: Sunday, July 6th, 2014 @ 2:57 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Much of the policy debate over education these days has been dominated by teacher pay.
Published: Saturday, July 5th, 2014 @ 9:52 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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At last week's government relations committee meeting for the Wake County School Board, school board member Jim Martin called current legislative efforts to correct Common Core problems "very much a political overreach." According to news reports, Martin then fired this shot...
Published: Thursday, July 3rd, 2014 @ 5:10 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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As the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) holds its "School's Out" rally, the Civitas Institute puts the spotlight on the gulf between teacher's salaries and NCAE executives' salaries.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 9:06 am
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This week's Bad Bill of the Week involves state legislators trying yet again to interject themselves into the voluntary association between employee and employer.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014 @ 12:14 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Using ncvotetracker.com you will be able to break down the vote by the method of voting utilized – absentee (one-stop and by-mail), Election Day, provisional, transfer and curbside voting.
Published: Thursday, June 26th, 2014 @ 7:02 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A new "public-private partnership" in North Carolina appears to put hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars at risk while guaranteeing profit for a company that has run into trouble in other states.
Published: Thursday, June 26th, 2014 @ 12:04 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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As a prior Army officer and Desert Storm Veteran, I have followed the VA hospital scandal with great interest, as I have earned the right to be cared for in the Veterans Administration system.
Published: Monday, June 23rd, 2014 @ 10:36 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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One quality that makes charter and private schools effective in educating children is their ability to operate efficiently.
Published: Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 @ 8:07 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Imagine the important things in your life: your spouse, your home, your favorite football team. What do they all have in common? You were able to choose them, not have them assigned to you by the political class.
Published: Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 @ 12:27 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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This week, Moral Monday took an interesting turn; instead of ending in arrests, the evening ended with a civil discussion and an eerie march through the State Legislative Building.
Published: Monday, June 16th, 2014 @ 8:11 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Where can budget writers find savings to help fund priorities such as teacher raises? That’s a question on everyone’s mind these days.
Published: Sunday, June 15th, 2014 @ 2:58 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The “Moral Monday” protestors, led by the state chapter of the NAACP, have a list of demands that, if implemented, would cost North Carolina taxpayers nearly $3 billion dollars now.
Published: Saturday, June 14th, 2014 @ 11:35 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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