Lawyers preparing for the state Supreme Court’s latest consideration of a 30-year-long education funding case want to spend more time before the court’s justices. A motion filed Friday at the state’s highest court asks justices to extend oral argument time from 60 minutes to 90 minutes.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Faculty Council has a history of issuing resolutions in support of a safe and inclusive campus and specific communities. Since 2013, it has passed at least eight such resolutions. These include, for example, resolutions in support of transgender individuals; people of color; Black individuals; and Asian, Asian-American,...
This week on ‘The Debrief’: Demand for Opportunity Scholarships sets a record, early voting starts next week, tackling the spin about North Carolina’s hog farms, and the political lessons we can learn from Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey. Be sure to visit CarolinaJournal.com each day for the latest on North Carolina politics and public...
Two weeks before the state Supreme Court hears oral arguments again in the 30-year-old education funding dispute commonly known as Leandro, state legislative leaders restated an argument that could throw out court orders in the case dating back to 2018. The state’s highest court takes up the case again on Feb. 22.
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More than 32,000 new applications for the Opportunity Scholarship Program came in during the first week of priority enrollment, setting a new record in demand for the program and tripling the number of applications submitted in February 2023. The numbers were first reported by the school-choice advocacy organization Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina...
The state Court of Appeals has ruled that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools must pay into a state retirement fund for officers working for its campus police agency. The decision Tuesday reversed part of a lower court’s ruling against officers who filed suit against CMS in 2019.
Seven more Durham County Schools closed Monday after the Durham Association of Educators sent a letter to Durham Public Schools saying that too many teachers would be calling out as part of a “Day of Protest.” The move came days after 12 other schools were forced to close on Jan. 31 in a similarly organized absence from work.
State Supreme Court Justice Phil Berger Jr. is submitting a recusal request in the education funding case known as Leandro to the full court. In an order issued Monday, Berger declined to act on the matter himself, “erring on the side of prudence.” The state's highest court will hear oral arguments in the case on Feb. 22.
North Carolina high school students set a recent record for Career and Technical Education credentialing during the 2022-2023 school year, according to fresh data from the state Department of Public Instruction. CTE students scored a 41% credential attainment rate last school year, a jump from 28% in 2021-2022 and the highest rate in the last...
Around 12:15am Thursday morning the website where parents can apply for the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) crashed as people rushed to apply. OSP became universally open to all North Carolina families after the state legislature passed a bill making all income levels eligible on a sliding scale, with families at the lower income levels being...
