The North Carolina Supreme Court will allow plaintiffs challenging school impact fees in Orange County to move forward with their pursuit of refunds. The decision Friday reverses a split Court of Appeals, which delivered a less clear-cut result in 2023 for plaintiffs challenging the fees.
Perhaps this movie will inspire the Bonhoeffers of this generation to have the courage to speak out.
The North Carolina Supreme Court split, 3-3, in a case seeking to invalidate a state law protecting the University of North Carolina System from lawsuits related to COVID shutdowns in spring 2020. The split announced Friday means a legal win for the university. A state Appeals Court ruling favoring the UNC system remains in place “without precedential value,” according to the high court’s two-page opinion.
The North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled against the town of Wake Forest in a battle over permits for a charter school. In a 5-2 decision Friday, the court’s Republican majority ruled that Wake Forest should not have used a local sidewalk rule to block the school’s construction in 2020.
Enrollment in traditional public schools has seen a notable downturn nationally and in North Carolina, according to fresh data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and state education reports. Since 2019, public school enrollment nationwide has dropped by 2.5%, while North Carolina experienced a smaller but still significant 1% decline amid marked population growth...
Taxpayers shouldn’t be roped into subsidizing teachers unions’ politics, and teachers unions like the NEA and NCAE should have to play by the same rules as everybody else.
Two University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill students, Guillermo Estrada and Alex Jones, of Phi Kappa Phi fraternity were awarded the FOX Nation Award for Courage Thursday evening. Estrada and Jones captured national attention earlier this year when they, alongside fellow students, defended the American flag during a pro-Palestinian protest on UNC’s campus in Chapel Hill.
Unchecked majority rule in a democracy can erode liberty just as surely as a tyrant.
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals chided a federal judge in North Carolina Tuesday for ignoring an earlier decision in a case pitting a parent against the Iredell-Statesville Board of Education.
The North Carolina Court of Appeals has rejected a lawsuit from former Lenoir-Rhyne women’s basketball players who claimed they were forced off the team in 2021 because of racism and retaliation. The decision Tuesday upheld a trial judge’s ruling favoring the school.
Foxx introduced a bill prohibiting higher education institutions from receiving federal funding for student aid if they engage in the BDS movement.
