Report calls for student-centered overhaul of NC K-12 financing
Funding public education requires efficiency and effectiveness. How the money is spent on education is just as important as how much money is spent.
Funding public education requires efficiency and effectiveness. How the money is spent on education is just as important as how much money is spent.
En 2022, Carolina del Norte gastó $16.7 mil millones en fondos estatales, federales y locales en sus escuelas públicas. Esos fondos se distribuyeron a las escuelas locales utilizando 50 fórmulas de financiación diferentes. La gente suele centrarse en cuánto dinero se distribuyó, lo cual es importante. Sin embargo, es igualmente importante evaluar cómo se distribuye...
In 2022, North Carolina spent $16.7 billion in state, federal, and local funds on its public schools. Those funds were distributed to local schools using 50 different funding formulas. People frequently focus on how much money was distributed, which is important. Equally important, however, is to evaluate how that money is distributed. In recent years,...
North Carolina has the chance to make history. The Tar Heel State hopes to join six other states in approving an essentially universal statewide voucher program. If lawmakers remove income restrictions for the current scholarship program, as anticipated, North Carolina would be one of the first states to approve such a program. Lawmakers would also...
North Carolina public schools are some of the worst-funded schools in the country and will need more money to adequately and fairly fund our schools in the future. That’s the conclusion of a well-publicized recent study from the Education Law Center — a study that is frequently referenced by progressive teacher groups, Democrat politicians, and others...
Extreme ideologies have taken root in many North Carolina public schools. They manifest themselves via various policies. For example, Wake (see here and here) and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools have for years been indoctrinating students in pro-transgender training. The consequences have been disastrous. A child’s understanding of sex and gender is severed from biology and anatomy and is now entirely defined by...
By funding Opportunity Scholarships, North Carolina empowers parents to decide how and where their child is educated.
Dr. Bob Luebke, senior fellow at the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, assesses North Carolina’s school bus driver shortages. Learn more here: “The bus driver problem: Does it have to be this difficult?”
Dr. Bob Luebke, senior fellow at the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, responds to a mainstream media attack against North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program. Learn more here: “Editors’ feeble complaints against the Opportunity Scholarship Program say more about them than the vouchers.”
Bob Luebke, senior fellow at the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, explains that most federal COVID-19 relief funding in North Carolina remains unspent. Luebke offered these comments for an Aug. 4, 2021, report on WNCN (CBS17).
Dr. Robert Luebke, senior fellow at the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, says most federal funds designated for COVID-19 education needs remain unspent. Learn more here: “Nearly 90% of COVID relief funds allotted to school districts still unspent.”
Dr. Bob Luebke, senior fellow at the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, explains how the COVID-19 pandemic led to a windfall for public education funding in North Carolina. Learn more here: “Reality morphs COVID funds into windfall for N.C. K-12 education Part 1 and Part 2.”