A press release from the governor this week accused Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, of “angrily and directly” acknowledging “that the legislature’s school voucher expansion is funded through cuts to public schools.”
A key leader in the school choice movement dubbed 2023 “the year of universal school choice” during the John Locke Foundation’s Carolina Liberty Conference on Jan. 26-27. In 2023, there were 111 bills introduced in 40 states relating to Education Savings Accounts or vouchers, according to Robert Enlow, president and CEO of the Indianapolis-based group...
Charlotte Latin School objects to a proposal for the full state Court of Appeals to rehear a case involving a dispute between the school and two former parents. A lawsuit claims the school expelled two students in 2021 after their parents questioned changes in school policy.
Four out of six candidates address federal debt, education and foreign affairs.
Cyberbullying, scammers, and child predators are a few of the many harms children can encounter while online, along with mental health issues. Public policy experts examine the challenges of balancing privacy and security.
I have a feeling most people involved in education policy intuitively accept the conclusion that parents should be the final word on what’s best for their child. But I also believe some don’t really understand its implications. You see, if we accept as our guiding principle that final authority rests with parents, then the answer...
Over recent years, voices across the education establishment have been crying out about a rise in teacher vacancies in classrooms across North Carolina. But things are a bit more complicated. For example, in Charlotte Observer’s late 2023 article on NC’s alleged teacher shortage, it admits: School districts opened the school year with 3,584 teaching vacancies,...
A legal watchdog located in Asheville, NC filed two civil rights complaints this week for discriminating against students based on skin color.
Like many other New Hanover County citizens, I was blindsided when New Hanover County Schools Superintendent Dr. Charles Foust and his administrative staff made a sudden announcement immediately after last Thanksgiving that the Career Readiness Academy at Mosley (commonly called “Mosley”) is being closed and the students enrolled there will be forced to transfer to...
This week, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Students for Justice in Palestine protested UNC hosting journalist Bari Weiss as part of UNC's Program for Public Discourse.
Legal experts are cautioning of the potential ‘chaos’ that could come from disregarding state laws.
