Most North Carolinians continue to support affirmative action when it is precisely defined as expanding access to the applicant pool for jobs, contracts, and admissions.
State Controller Linda Combs is going to court to block a recent ruling in the long-running Leandro school funding case. Combs filed a petition Wednesday asking the N.C. Court of Appeals to issue a “writ of prohibition.” The writ would block retired Union County Judge David Lee’s order for Combs to transfer $1.7 billion out...
Jocelyn Pickford and Duncan Robb discuss their new Manhattan Institute report on microschooling in Idaho. Learn more here: “Microschooling in Idaho: Using policy to scale a new type of small-school environment.”
Friday, Nov. 18 will go down as an important day in our state’s recent history. That is the day when the Republican-led General Assembly and Gov. Roy Cooper came to terms on a state budget for the new biennium. It’s a state budget that propels our state one step forward in funding students rather than...
Many North Carolinians breathed a sigh of relief last week when the GOP-led legislature and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper came to terms on a budget for the new biennium. School choice advocates were among them and have plenty to celebrate in the new spending plan. “There is greater demand for educational options than ever before....
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the emergence of parental rights as a hot political issue. Kokai offered these comments during the Nov. 19, 2021, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”
Parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed this right. Yet, education elites have been on a collision course with parental rights, exhibiting that they are intent on using public schools as a laboratory for social experiments like critical race theory,...
The N.C. legislature passed the Accountability and Fair Play in Athletics on Wednesday, Nov. 17. The conference report for this bill is one of several policy measures working its way quickly through committees as lawmakers look to wrap up a drawn-out legislative session. House Bill 91 is an effort to reform the management of high...
One nationally known education expert eschews the popular phrase "public schools."
Rampant inflation, supply chain issues, and the COVID-19 pandemic aren’t dampening the Christmas spirit at the international Christian charity Samaritan’s Purse. Volunteers are hard at work this week collecting shoeboxes filled with gifts for needy children across the globe. Operation Christmas Child began in 1993 as a simple way to deliver shoebox gifts — filled...
A retired Union County judge is trying to leapfrog the Republican-led N.C. General Assembly by ordering a $1.7 billion transfer from the state’s coffers to fund public education. The transfer would bankroll two years of a remedial plan in the long-running Leandro school funding case that dates back to 1994. The price tag for the...
