A Charlotte private school is defending its decision to remove two students in 2021 after a dispute with the students’ parents. The defense appeared in a brief filed Monday with North Carolina’s highest court.
Friday marked 70 years since the US Supreme Court declared that government-enforced separate public schools for students of different races was unconstitutional in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. Yet our public school enrollment boundaries today are often a near-mirror of the redlined housing maps going back to the 1930s and 1940s —...
After forfeiting control over education to the left for years, conservatives decided to fight back. And from K-12 to the university system, they are winning battle after battle.
State House Speaker Tim Moore and lieutenant governor candidate Hal Weatherman are among 14 Republican political figures supporting parents who seek the North Carolina Supreme Court’s review of a lawsuit against a Charlotte private school. Doug and Nicole Turpin argue that Charlotte Latin School breached its contract with the Turpin family by expelling two children in 2021.
A measure introduced in the North Carolina House would expand transparency requirements in public schools, including by requiring teachers to post lesson plans online for easy access by parents. Filed on May 2, House Bill 1032, Academic Transparency, requires that lesson plans be posted online no later than 10 days after the lessons are handed out....
It’s National Charter Schools Week, and there is much to celebrate about North Carolina’s charter school movement. Public charter schools in our state now educate 145,000 students in 63 counties, and charter popularity continues to grow with families. In fact, the state’s charter school waitlist now features over 85,000 student names. Despite widespread popularity, however,...
Brianna Kraemer, Carolina Journal public policy reporter, discusses the latest developments in the story of a Davidson County high school student suspended for using the words “illegal alien” in class. Kraemer offered these comments during a May 8, 2024, appearance on One America News Network.
Kamren Lewis talks about food insecurity amongst college studentes.
A federal Appeals Court has ruled that Charlotte Catholic High School did not violate a teacher’s rights when it fired him for planning to marry his same-sex partner. The decision Wednesday from the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a trial judge’s ruling favoring English and drama teacher Lonnie Billard.
Sen. Jay Chaudhuri, D-Wake, is running Senate Bill 867, Superintendent of Public Instruction Minimum Requirements. The measure mandates that the state superintendent “must have at least one year of experience as a teacher or school administrator in this State or a member of a local board of education or the State Board of Education.” The legislation notably leaves out homeschool educators, and few other Council of State positions have such requirements.
Parents of two children expelled from a Charlotte private school in 2021 are making their second bid for the North Carolina Supreme Court to take the case. Their latest appeal Tuesday followed April's split 2-1 decision against the parents from the state’s second-highest court.
