Will political realities jar the powers-that-be in North Carolina’s fast-growing metropolitan areas to change their approach to school construction? Upcoming debates will reveal the answer.
WASHINGTON, DC — Just one year after governors and education and business leaders met to push for high school reform, many states are making progress closing the expectations gap between what is demanded of students and what is required to succeed.
When fiscal conservatives question government funding for a program, they are accused of not valuing it. That is a mistaken view of the proper test.
Politicians have found a new industry to pick on, with its customers being compelled to pay an unfair share of the cost of new government programs from which they may never benefit.
It seems as though every time you turn around there is a situation at UNC-Chapel Hill involving the First Amendment. This week’s topic — a controversial cartoon printed by The Daily Tar Heel that depicted the prophet Muhammad — led to an uproar. University officials and the UNC-Chapel Hill Muslim Student Association said the newspaper was “insensitive” to publish the cartoon.
I have to laugh every time I see in the media a new broadside fired at Wal-Mart for paying its workers "low" wages. But at some point journalists need to look in the mirror; pay for journalists is no better.
Lawmakers should address the real problem underlying growing budget costs.
“A frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty.” So states the North Carolina constitution, wisely.
Members of the elite White House press corps this week have acted more like animals that have been kept in captivity for so long that they can’t find news unless it is forced down their open gullets at a daily press briefing.
President Bush's fiscal-policy record is far worse than a President Gore’s would probably have been, if history is any guide.
When it comes to public education, a good clean-up is in order. Speaker Black’s legislation is proof positive of the unholy alliance between politicians and K-12 education. All too often, parents and students are left to sift through the fallout from this tangled web of power, money, and influence.
