On July 25, 2017, Governor Roy Cooper announced the creation of the Commission on Access to Sound Basic Education. The name of the commission name references the ongoing Leandro…
North Carolinians will be hearing the name “Leandro” a lot more in the next few years. “Leandro” is the name of the lead plaintiff in Leandro v. State of…
As Carolina Journal reported last week, the N.C. State Board of Education has delayed approval of two charter school applicants, North Raleigh Charter Academy and Wake Preparatory Academy, because…
It is not difficult to understand why the editors of Business North Carolina and The Robesonian have asked the state to assist the Public Schools of Robeson County.
The education establishment and their left-wing political allies frequently condemn companies that are contracted to operate public charter schools. As part of his Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education,…
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…
While the media will be focusing on union activists at today’s teacher march, I’ll be thinking about a young man named Junior. In 2016, a sobering documentary titled “Raising…
In March, the National Education Association released teacher salary data from its upcoming “Rankings of the States 2018 and Estimates of School Statistics 2019” report. Republican lawmakers welcomed the news…
This week, the National Education Association (NEA) released data from its annual Rankings and Estimates report. The bottom line is that North Carolina’s $53,975 average teacher salary ranks 29th,…
A 2016 report published by the General Assembly’s nonpartisan Program Evaluation Division detailed the distribution of state funds to public schools and concluded that the system’s “features and controls are…