Enough is enough, say school voucher advocates who want a three-judge Superior Court panel to dismiss Gov. Roy Cooper’s lawsuit against North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship program. Opportunity Scholarships are state-funded vouchers that allow middle and low-income families to opt-out of public education and send their children to private schools. On Wednesday, Jan. 31, Parents for...
Dr.Terry Stoops, John Locke Foundation vice president for research, discusses the potential resolution of North Carolina’s long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit. Stoops offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses two major developments in North Carolina’s long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit. Kokai offered these comments during the July 28, 2017, edition of UNC-TV’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”
From Carolina Journal Radio Program No. 734: The nation’s largest teachers union recently ranked North Carolina No. 43 in average per-student spending among the 50 states. Dr. Terry Stoops, the John Locke Foundation’s vice president for research, explains why the National Education Association’s numbers are not necessarily accurate, appropriate, or meaningful.
North Carolina’s largest health insurer wants to raise rates by 23 percent for policies tied to the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. Katherine Restrepo, the John Locke Foundation’s director of health care policy, analyzes factors contributing to the rate increase. Restrepo also offers ideas about ways the state and federal government could change policies to...
Dr. Terry Stoops, John Locke Foundation vice president for research, discusses research about the level of per-student education spending necessary to meet student achievement goals. Stoops offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
Rick Henderson on impact of election reform; Robert George on need for civic virtue; lawmakers discuss state funding of public schools; Terry Stoops & lawmakers on Project L.I.F.T in Charlotte schools; George Leef on equity contracts to fund college
Michael Sanera on local sales tax hikes; Wayne Goodwin, Brad Wilson & Joe Coletti on BCBS refund; Douglas Minson on Catholic thought & conservative Southern ideas; David Howard on N.C. effort to recover Bill of Rights; Terry Stoops on Durham charter suit.
