Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses a proposal to change the way North Carolina pays public school teachers. Stoops offered these comments during the Aug. 11, 2012, edition of Spectrum News 1’s “Capital Tonight.”
McCullough is well known for his books, but his voice also helped propel history to the masses.
The N.C. Supreme Court has agreed to extend oral arguments Aug. 31 in the long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit. A court order issued Monday granted the unanimous request from all parties in the contested case.
Gov. Roy Cooper and nine other Southern Democrat governors, present and past, signed onto a friend-of-the-court brief in support of UNC Chapel Hill and Harvard in a U.S. Supreme Court case regarding their “race-conscious admissions” policies. Four of the 10 signers were from N.C., and included former Govs. Mike Easley, Jim Hunt, and Bev Perdue.
There’s one point of unanimous agreement among the competing parties in the Leandro school funding lawsuit. They all want more time to argue before the N.C. Supreme Court this month. Oral arguments are scheduled Aug. 31. A joint application filed Thursday asks the court to extend its traditional one-hour oral argument session by 30 minutes....
North Carolina comes out on top nationwide as the state catching up the fastest with early reading skills post-pandemic, according to N.C. Superintendent of Public Instruction Catherine Truitt. She made the announcement Tuesday at the N.C. Council of State meeting.
A lawyer representing a group of N.C. “business leaders” denies that the group ever tried to misrepresent the NC Chamber’s support for plaintiffs in the long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit. The group has amended a friend-of-the-court brief to the N.C. Supreme Court.
The board of trustees for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has unanimously adopted a resolution affirming the school’s commitment to academic freedom and freedom of speech on campus.
The N.C. Supreme Court should reject a trial judge’s decision to move hundreds of millions of dollars out of the state treasury to pay for education-related expenses. That’s the key argument in a brief submitted by the John Locke Foundation and N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law.
The state’s largest business lobbying group is crying foul at tactics employed by a group of “business leaders” supporting plaintiffs in the long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit. A letter from the NC Chamber’s general counsel delivered Tuesday to the N.C. Supreme Court accuses the “business leaders” of misrepresentation.
At the commission’s meeting on Aug. 1, members clashed over the idea of allowing years of experience to substitute for a bachelor’s degree requirement.
