Last year the General Assembly reformed the state’s election laws. While media have focused on the requirement to show a photo I.D. to vote beginning in 2016, a UNC professor has analyzed the potential impact of other reforms. Carolina Journal Managing Editor Rick Henderson discusses the professor’s findings and what they could mean for future election cycles. Next is a look what’s termed “civic virtue.” It takes more than just a solid constitutional structure to preserve limited government in the United States. Civic virtue is required as well. That was a key theme of Princeton professor Robert George’s recent John W. Pope Lecture at N.C. State University. George shares key themes from that lecture in a conversation with Carolina Journal Radio. Turning to K-12 education, public schools in North Carolina get a larger percentage of their money from state government than schools in most other states. It’s a fact that generated discussion recently among state lawmakers as they consider the future of public education. Continuing with education, one local program that has attracted state lawmakers’ attention is the Project L.I.F.T. program serving selected Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools. You’ll hear a description of Project L.I.F.T., along with reaction from legislators and John Locke Foundation Director of Research and Education Studies Terry Stoops. And finally, we look at a proposed mechanism for funding a college education. George Leef, research director for the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, explains the concept of “equity contracts,” their origin, and why the idea is getting a second look roughly 50 years after they were proposed by Milton Friedman.
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