Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses a jump in N.C. private school enrollment in 2021-22. Kokai offered these comments during the July 8, 2022, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”
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Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses Twitter’s decision to punish him after he exposed elements of the National Education Association’s agenda. Stoops offered these comments during a July 7, 2022, appearance on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.”
The head of the John Locke Foundation’s Center for Effective Education found himself in “Twitter jail” Wednesday. Terry Stoops faced that penalty after exposing discussion topics at a national teachers’ union’s annual meeting. Thousands of teachers and activists are wrapping up a week of meetings in Chicago for the National Education Association annual meeting. While...
The long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit will return to the N.C. Supreme Court for oral arguments on Aug. 31. An earlier court order says a decision in the case will "be filed upon a date to be chosen in the Court's discretion."
N.C. legislative leaders want the state Supreme Court to reject a plan that would call for the forced transfer of $785 million for court-ordered education spending. Top legislators make their case in a new brief tied to the long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit.
Lawyers from N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein’s Justice Department urge the N.C. Supreme Court to uphold an order forcing state government to fund $785 million for education-related expenses. State lawyers make that request in their latest filing in the long-running Leandro school funding dispute. Legislative leaders and the state controller have challenged the order. It...
Plaintiffs in the long-running Leandro education funding lawsuit argue that a Superior Court judge was wrong to strike down his predecessor’s order transferring money out of the state treasury. A brief filed Friday asks the N.C. Supreme Court to strike down that portion of a $785 million order from Judge Michael Robinson.
A state senator tried without success Wednesday to get Gov. Roy Cooper’s nominee for state controller to answer “yes” or “no” on three questions. Each stemmed from the same query: Would he go along with a court order to transfer money out of the state treasury in the Leandro school-funding legal dispute?
Marie Miller, attorney at the Institute for Justice, explains how the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in Carson v. Makin, a case from Maine, could affect North Carolina’s lawsuit challenging the Opportunity Scholarship Program. Miller represents parents defending OSP. She argued on their behalf during a June 8 hearing at the N.C. Court of Appeals.
Catherine Truitt, North Carolina’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, announced the 48 members of a new Parent Advisory Committee on Tuesday, June 14. The names were drawn from 3,000 applicants who responded to Truitt’s announcement earlier this year about the new committee.
