Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses the latest developments in North Carolina’s long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit. Learn more here: “Leandro plan awaits judge in Superior Court; no hearing date set.”
A plan for North Carolina to provide an opportunity for a sound, basic education to all students now waits with a judge in Superior Court. On Monday, March 15, defendants in the long-running Leandro lawsuit, in consultation with plaintiffs in the case, submitted a document called the Comprehensive Remedial Plan to Superior Court Judge David...
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson announced Tuesday, March 16, the creation of a task force dedicated to giving “students, parents, and school faculty a voice to speak out about cases of bias, inappropriate materials, or indoctrination they see or experience in public schools.” The F.A.C.T.S task force — standing for Fairness and Accountability in the Classroom...
Josh Stein has a track record of struggling to side with the First Amendment.
Dr. Bob Luebke, senior fellow at the John Locke Foundation’s Center for Effective Education, discuss the best approach to dealing with public school student learning loss. Learn more here: “Reversing learning loss: What we know.”
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the compromise between Gov. Roy Cooper and state legislative leaders to reopen N.C. public schools. Kokai offered these comments during the March 12, 2021, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”
Katie Gorka, Heritage Foundation director for civil society, discusses the political left’s approach to K-12 education.
Even as a bill to reopen schools across North Carolina garnered unanimous bipartisan support and was fast-tracked through the legislature, North Carolina’s teacher’s union released a statement blasting Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and lawmakers from both political parties for the compromise. In a rare instance of bipartisan agreement, Cooper joined with both Republican and Democratic...
John Locke Foundation CEO Amy Cooke, “The Right AOC,” critiques a recent document that argues precise mathematics instruction is racist. Contact Amy at [email protected]. Follow her at https://www.facebook.com/TheRightAOC… and https://twitter.com/TheRightAOC.
Accusations aimed at North Carolina’s public high school sports governing group “range from ill-informed to just plain wrong.” That was the message from the group’s leaders during a 75-minute news conference Thursday, March 11. The news conference responded to recent reporting criticizing the N.C. High School Athletic Association. “Over the past several days, it’s been...
“They are making money every year off our children, off our parents, and off taxpayers,” said N.C. Sen. Tom McInnis, R-Richmond
