Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses Judge David Lee’s latest actions in North Carolina’s Leandro school funding case. Learn more here: “GOP lawmakers fire back after judge sets arbitrary funding deadline in Leandro.”
What’s controversial about saying one race or sex is not inherently greater than another?
Some Democrats say no one is teaching the proscribed concepts in House Bill 324. Others say the bill would prevent teaching about important parts of America's past. Both criticisms cannot be true at the same time.
Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, discusses North Carolina’s latest K-12 public school test scores. King offered these comments during the Sept. 10, 2021, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”
Mitch Kokai, senior political analyst for the John Locke Foundation, discusses Locke’s billboard campaign targeting teachers’ membership in the N.C. Association of Educators. Kokai offered these comments for a Sept. 10, 2021, report on WXII.
Gov. Roy Cooper has pulled out his veto stamp again to reject bills dealing with public school indoctrination and penalties for rioting. Cooper now has vetoed 10 bills this year and 63 bills since becoming governor in 2017. House Bill 324, Ensuring Dignity and Nondiscrimination in Schools, was designed to prevent schools from forcing students...
Ray Nothstine, Carolina Journal opinion editor, explains his concerns about a UNC course focusing on “whiteness.” Learn more here: “‘Global whiteness’ class embarrassing even for UNC.”
Republican budget writers in the General Assembly are bristling after the judge in the long-running Leandro school funding case set an arbitrary deadline of Oct. 18 for lawmakers to fund the court-ordered plan. In a hearing Wednesday, Sept. 8, Superior Court Judge David Lee ordered the legislature to comply or he would explore options to...
Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses inappropriate N.C. school quiz questions that attracted media attention. Learn more here: “N.C. high school quiz asks about ‘glassware to make … meth’ and ‘murdering rednecks with minivans.'”
The rewriting of history is reaching new and absurd levels if World War II can be blamed on the Allies and not the Axis powers.
The recently approved House Bill 324 bears no resemblance to the phantom legislation targeted by opponents.
