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Lawmakers to vote on budget changes and funding Opportunity Scholarships
Lawmakers to vote on budget changes including ICE and opportunity scholarships.
Opinion
Empower K-12 students and staff to know their First Amendment Rights
Students have a constitutional right express their faith during school — including studying religious texts during non-instructional time, expressing their beliefs in assignments, and talking to others about their faith.
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Harris campaign asked Gaston County teachers to recruit kids for her campaign
A local organizer for the Harris-Walz Campaign asked teachers in Gaston County Schools to recruit kids to work on the campaign, and some accepted. Such action, however, is illegal in North Carolina.
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NC Charter schools remain fastest growing K-12 segment
Charter schools remain the fastest-growing segment of K-12 education in North Carolina. That’s according to recent data from state government showing around a 5% increase in charter school enrollments since last year. In contrast, district school enrollment saw a slight decline of 0.4%. The rise in charter school enrollment coincides with increases in private and homeschool enrollments, which...
Opinion
Leandro ruling could open up education finance debate
A decision shaking up the 30-year-old legal dispute could open the conversation about reforming North Carolina's education finances.
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NC private, home, and charter school enrollment continues upward trend
New reports from the North Carolina state government reveal a consistent rise in private and home school enrollments year-over-year. Private school enrollment has grown 3.2%, while Mecklenburg, Wake, and Union counties lead the state in the number of homeschool students.
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NC only southern state to adopt Biden’s Title IX gender rules
Twenty-six states that are under litigation barring the implementation of the Title IX rewrite. While every other state in the south, including Virginia and Tennessee, has paused implementing the rule, North Carolina, is the only southern state where the federal government will be able to enforce its new rule.
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NC students surpass national literacy averages for 3rd year in a row
For the third consecutive year, North Carolina’s kindergarten through third-grade students have outperformed the national average on end-of-year literacy assessments. That’s according to data presented to the State Board of Education on Thursday. The number of NC students meeting or exceeding the benchmark for the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills—or DIBELS 8—assessment increased...
Opinion
Replace NC’s embarrassing science standards with the Franklin Standards
NC can have excellent science instruction in its public K-12 schools — but only if it tosses out its current standards and makes sure the current standard-makers have nothing to do with crafting the replacement.
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Federal Appeals Court rejects former CMS student’s sexual-assault case
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected various arguments from a former student who sued Charlotte and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in connection with an alleged sexual assault near Myers Park High School in 2015. The suit also named a school resource officer and assistant principal.
Opinion
What can be, unburdened by what has been
Like the France of the Olympic opening ceremony, Harris wants to recreate herself anew, forgetting the inconvenient past in favor of the radical future.
Opinion
Carolinas united for academic excellence
CALN is a joint initiative of three think tanks — NC's John Locke Foundation, and SC's Palmetto Promise Institute and SC Policy Council — to support school-board members.
