education

Three weeks ago today, Governor Roy Cooper declared a state of emergency due to the spread of COVID-19.  One day later, John Locke Foundation researchers paused all other projects and got…

Democratic Governor of California Gavin Newsom made headlines last week after he tweeted  that doctors should be “able to write prescriptions for housing the same way they do for…

Introduction North Carolina’s K-12 public school finance system is broken. And efforts to fix it have been at least a decade in the making. This paper highlights the problems with…

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…

What is the role of education in America?  What is government’s role in providing that education?  A new White House government reform plan states that education should provide students…

Time Warner Cable News called on Carolina Journal Managing Editor Rick Henderson to help recap some of the year’s major stories during the New Year’s eve…

When the Raleigh News and Observer highlighted a change in state law that allows the state treasurer to shift some employees to salaries based on market forces, the newspaper sought…

For fiscal year 2015-16, the General Fund budget will rise 3.1 percent to $21.7 billion, below the combined rates of population growth and inflation. The following year, the budget will have an overall increase of less than one-percent.

The John Locke Foundation is continuing its tradition, started in 1995, of offering an alternative to the governor’s budget recommendation. Consistent with prior years, this JLF budget focuses on core government. This budget spends less in both years of the biennium than the governor’s, and only increases spending by 2 percent from the last fiscal year.

RALEIGH — Gov. Pat McCrory’s new $21.5 billion General Fund spending plan would focus government resources on education and other high-priority items, without reversing important elements of the state’s sweeping…