Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses recent developments in North Carolina’s debate over masks in schools.
America has always been more religiously devout than other Western democracies. But now, like them, it has begun to secularize rapidly. And, as religion has declined, political ideology has intensified, society has fragmented, and cultural common ground has disintegrated. As a result, politics is increasingly divisive and existentially fraught. For over three decades, debates about...
The N.C. House on Thursday, Aug. 5, concurred with the Senate on a bill giving parents control over the COVID vaccine. House Bill 96, which passed on the concurrence vote, 106-5, requires written consent from a parent or legal guardian for a minor to receive a vaccine approved for emergency use, but not yet fully...
A group that advocates for N.C. public schools will turn to controversial journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones as the featured speaker for its October summit. The Public School Forum of North Carolina broke the news Thursday morning about Hannah-Jones serving as keynote speaker Oct. 26 for the virtual “Color of Education 2021” summit. Hannah-Jones has generated headlines...
Bob Luebke, senior fellow at the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, explains that most federal COVID-19 relief funding in North Carolina remains unspent. Luebke offered these comments for an Aug. 4, 2021, report on WNCN (CBS17).
The Senate’s top officer is continuing to highlight his concerns about the agenda of “antiracist” summer camps and teacher workshops tied to the Durham Public Schools. “Antiracism sounds nice — who wouldn’t want to be an antiracist?” asks a news release from the office of Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham. “But the doctrine of antiracism,...
State auditors found Roanoke-Chowan Community College issued more than $10.3 million in checks with invalid signatures between August 2019 and August 2020, putting the school at increased risk of fraud. A report released Friday by the Office of State Auditor Beth Wood said the college didn’t have proper policies and procedures in place to detect...
Most non-educators believe teacher pay ought to vary according to demonstrable performance. Most public-school teachers dislike this idea.
Update: On Tuesday, August 3, 2021, The Wake County School Board voted unanimously to require masks for kindergarten through twelfth-grade students for the Fall 2021 semester regardless of vaccine status. Given the freedom to choose whether to mandate masks for students, school boards across the state have begun voting to make face coverings optional for...
It is too often the case that media outlets will cite a research paper, cherry-pick information, and make misleading claims about what the findings entail. Unfortunately, this is precisely what our friends at NC Policy Watch have done in their recent piece about a study from Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy that examined...
Editor’s note: The submissions are from concerned parents and teachers who highlighted student assignments on white privilege and systemic racism and pressured ‘Equity’ training for staff as examples of the promotion of the controversial ideology in public schools. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson in March announced the launch of a task force to address growing concern...
