Seven years after the state's highest court upheld a scholarship program, it faces another strikingly similar legal attack.
A Democrat-controlled N.C. Supreme Court could end up deciding the constitutionality of a $1.7-billion transfer ordered by the presiding judge in the long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit. That outcome could be in the cards after plaintiffs in the case filed an appeal Dec. 15 challenging a Court of Appeals that blocked enforcement of the order...
Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, asks N.C. Treasurer Dale Folwell about the recent controversy surrounding a $1.7 billion education funding order. This exchange took place during the Jan. 7, 2021, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”
North Carolina continues to wait and see if the state Supreme Court will address a trial judge’s $1.7 billion education funding order. The state Appeals Court threw out that order, but the case could head to North Carolina’s highest court in the weeks ahead. State Treasurer Dale Folwell said the waiting should be a moot...
We have so much to fear. From an innumerable list of things natural and manmade. If that is, we choose to effectually succumb to the doubt and the uncertainty. The mainstream media, in fact, encapsulates that fear and profits from it, driving ratings and online viewership. Niche websites, coming from all directions, do much of...
Effective vaccines are broadly available. Effective therapies soon will be. Yet the disease isn’t going to disappear. Pandemic will become endemic.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated. State Controller Linda Combs and Republican legislative leaders are asking the N.C. Supreme Court not to step into the latest dispute involving the long-running Leandro school funding case. At stake is $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds. The N.C. Court of Appeals issued a “writ of prohibition” on Nov....
The N.C. Court of Appeals will decide in the weeks or months ahead whether students from N.C. State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill can sue their schools for refunds of student fees. A trial judge ruled in June that the students can move forward with a breach-of-contract claim. NCSU graduate...
A member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights says racial preferences in university admissions hurt the people they're designed to help.
The latest legal challenge to North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program could be decided by a single judge or a three-judge panel. Arguments presented in recent days to the N.C. Court of Appeals focus on the case’s destination. Lawyers for the state, Republican legislative leaders, and parents defending Opportunity Scholarships all want the case transferred to...
Melanie Colette of Project 21 explains the group’s support of a friend-of-the-court brief at the U.S. Supreme Court in a case challenging UNC-Chapel Hill’s race-based admissions. Learn more here: “Black activists tell Supreme Court: Race preferences have ‘disastrous consequences.'”
