Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s this week’s review: No runoff: Rep. Yvonne Lewis Holley, D-Wake, can breathe a sigh of relief after her competitor for the…
As stories of the spread of coronavirus continue to circulate in the media, teachers have turned to Facebook to complain about a purported shortage of cleaning supplies and hand sanitizer needed to combat the spread of COVID-19 in their schools and classrooms. Predictably, a few petty teachers have used…
Carolina Journal recently broke the news that the N.C. Department of Transportation had purchased a former circus train and parked its cars in a wooded area near Spring Hope in Nash County. The CJ story stirred up interest in the transaction among lawmakers who oversee the DOT. It’s just the…
Gov. Roy Cooper emerged from a recent meeting with business executives and proclaimed that none of them had asked for a tax cut. Cooper used that fact to bolster his opposition to reducing business taxation. The problem for Cooper is that every company cited in his comments about the meeting…
Peter Hans, president of the N.C. Community College System and co-chairman of myFutureNC, and Jeni Corn, director of strategic initiatives at myFutureNC, discuss the group’s role in boosting the state’s educational attainment and economic growth. Hans and Corn offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio.
Earlier this month, I was honored to attend “North Carolina and the Science of Reading,” an event sponsored by the Charlotte-based Belk Foundation. Speakers from the Barksdale Reading Institute in Mississippi and The Reading League outlined the ways policymakers and state education leaders responded to disappointing…
Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s this week’s review: Common core: A week ago, State Superintendent Mark Johnson sent a survey about Common Core to thousands of…
In a matter of weeks, N.C. voters will participate in the Super Tuesday elections. Democrats are likely to face heated presidential and U.S. Senate primaries, Republicans will decide who should face incumbent Roy Cooper in the governor’s race, and members of both parties will see other important races on primary…
A wing of the N.C. Association of Educators wants to move the organization in a more left-leaning, radical direction. Members of the NCAE Organize 2020 Racial and Social Justice Caucus shared their vision of the NCAE’s future in a webinar Feb.
Lindalyn Kakadelis, executive director of the N.C. Coalition for Charter Schools, discusses the group’s goals. Kakadelis offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio.
