A measure fast-tracked through the N.C. House on Wednesday, June 9 would delay implementation of new social studies standards that focus on racism, identity, and discrimination. Under Senate Bill 654, the revised social studies standards would not go into effect until the 2022-23 school year. The standards had…
A bill sponsored by Democrats in the N.C. House would pump billions of additional dollars into public education over the next few years toward meeting the requirements of a new remedial agreement in the ongoing Leandro lawsuit. House Bill 946…
Dr. Bob Luebke, senior fellow at the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses a misleading News & Observer editorial about N.C. school choice. Learn more here: “Case for stopping Opportunity Scholarship expansion lacks facts — and support.”…
Dr. Bob Luebke, senior fellow at the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, explains one silver lining behind the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more here: “The pandemic’s silver lining: the growing popularity of school choice, Part 1 and Part 2.”…
North Carolina’s best-performing charter schools would have an easier time opening new campuses in challenging settings, under a bill that won endorsement from a state House committee. House Bill 616 won unanimous approval after less than three minutes of discussion Tuesday in the Education K-12 Committee. “The reason that…
Glen and Emily Stephens experienced the tragedy of a lifetime in 2012 when their 6-year-old son, Gabriel, died of complications from the flu. Gabriel had suffered from the physiological and neurological disorder Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome for years. But when one door closed, another soon opened: Glen and…
Epidemiologists and infectious disease experts have consistently maintained that the risk of spread of the COVID-19 virus among young children is low. But that hasn’t stopped policymakers like N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper from — for most of the past year — keeping in-person instruction closed for all…
A bill to expand the Opportunity Scholarship Program passed the N.C. House, 69-49, on Tuesday, April 13, following a floor debate that focused on accountability. Created in 2013, Opportunity Scholarships are designed to help families who would otherwise struggle to afford private-school tuition but who want to leave their locally…
Public school teachers in North Carolina receive an average annual salary of $53,392 for the current school year, according to the latest figures from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction. That puts the state second best in the Southeast — behind Georgia — in average teacher pay.
Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday, April 9, signed two bills into law designed to help students who lost more than a year of in-person learning because of the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns. House Bill 82, Summer Learning Choice for NC Families,…
