On Wednesday, the North Carolina House passed a bill requiring students at state universities to take a three-credit hour course on the U.S. Constitution and other founding documents by a vote of 69-47.
State and local governments in North Carolina would be barred from requiring the COVID-19 vaccine under a bill passed March 21 by the House Health Committee.
It's silly to say "many teachers earn less" than the average salary. It's true, of course, but many also earn more.
The judge overseeing North Carolina’s long-running Leandro education funding lawsuit signaled Friday that he might issue a new spending order in the case within three weeks. That announcement followed more than 2 1/2 hours of courtroom debate over the amount of money to be included in that order. Judge James Ammons confirmed he will not order state officials to transfer money out of the state treasury.
A group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers recently announced in a press conference that addressing early childhood education policy would be a priority this legislative session. Legislators are considering five bills this year that would impact early childhood education in North Carolina. Collectively, the bills increase state funding for childcare subsidies, create a pilot program...
State legislative leaders want the new judge in the Leandro lawsuit to cut the case’s outstanding education spending obligation to $377 million. That’s $300 million less than other parties in the case have recommended.
The judge overseeing North Carolina’s long-running Leandro education funding case has confirmed that his next hearing will address one specific issue. The hearing Friday will focus on the amount of money necessary to meet the state’s current Leandro obligations.
Lawyers with N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein’s Justice Department are urging the state Supreme Court to move quickly on its latest review of the long-running Leandro education funding case. A document filed Friday asks the court to schedule no more than 52 days for new briefing in the case, with a new oral argument to be scheduled “promptly.”
The N.C. Supreme Court has reinstated a lower court’s order blocking a trial judge from forcing state officials to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars out of the state treasury in the Leandro case. The court’s vote was 5-2, with Republican justices supporting the decision and Democrats dissenting.
The N.C. Supreme Court will hear two high-profile COVID-related cases in the months ahead. One deals with the forced shutdown of an Alamance County speedway. The other targets student fees paid at the University of North Carolina’s flagship universities when they were closed for in-person instruction.
The suicide rate for youths between the ages of 10- and 17-years-old reached the highest in two decades in 2021 in North Carolina, according to a new report from the North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force.
