Dr. Terry Stoops, John Locke Foundation director of research and education studies, questions the political wisdom of the state’s largest teachers group bashing Republican legislative leaders over the issue of teacher pay. Stoops offered these comments during the Aug. 14, 2013, edition of News 14 Carolina’s “Capital Tonight.”
Opinion
For healthy civil society, politics needs to stay in its lane
Political and cultural causes are important. They motivate us to make the world around us better and hone our sense of justice. Also, the excitement of fighting the good fight can be, for lack of a better word, fun. But everything has its time and place. And even if we think a particular political issue...