Attorney-activists just attempted to get Judge Howard Manning to turn the Leandro case into a mandate to renew forced busing. Their failure is worth celebrating if you believe children are ends in themselves.
A recent study provides evidence that states with fewer, larger school districts have lower graduation rates. The case for deconsolidating Mecklenburg, Wake, and other districts just got stronger.
Next time state officials say they are doing you a favor with tax-exempt sales, do what Santa does: check it twice. North Carolina officials promoted the recent tax-free weekend for school supplies as a boon (or bone?) to families of school-age children.
Left-wing donors are pledging more than $80 million to create or expand think tanks and advocacy groups to combat the "potent conservative infrastructure.” Misunderstandings abound.
LENOIR — Mean Verbal - 429, Mean Quantitative - 520, Total - 949: These are the mean Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores of applicants for graduate study in Education Administration tested between July 1, 2000 and June 30, 2003.
A negative times a negative might yield a positive number in multiplication, but the legislative process works rather differently — as is evident in a bad tax-credit bill that’s just gotten worse.
It's not hard to imagine potential resolutions to the differences between the NC House and Senate versions of a 2005-07 state budget. The reason the deal hasn't been struck yet is that there was no rule requiring it.
On July 14th, the U.S. Department of Education released the latest edition of the "Nation's Report Card," otherwise known as the 2004-2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Everyone, including Secretary Spelling, hailed growth trends for younger students, and rightly so: 9-year-olds posted their best reading and math scores in the report's 30-year history. American teenagers, on the other hand, did not fare so well: reading and math scores for 17-year-olds stayed low.
Dozens of North Carolina counties are being knocked by fiscal conservatives for raising property taxes this year. But not all deserve the criticism — given that it wrongly demands a “revenue-neutral” rate after revaluations.
The Barbed Wire Choir said it best, even if they didn't say it first: give us criminals—we need the prison jobs. Prisons, and by implication crime, can be desirable engines of economic growth, according to some. And now, Governor Easley has gotten into the prison act.
A boyhood schoolmate of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts remembers a model student and caring person
