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New school board group sounds alarm on mediocre education putting ‘nation at risk’

Forty-one years ago, under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan, the National Commission on Excellence in Education found “a nation at risk.”  If​ ​an​ ​unfriendly​ ​foreign​ ​power​ ​had​ ​attempted​ ​to​ ​impose​ ​on​ ​America​ ​the mediocre​ ​educational​ ​performance​ ​that​ ​exists​ ​today,​ ​we​ ​might​ ​well​ ​have viewed​ ​it​ ​as​ ​an​ ​act​ ​of​ ​war.​ ​As​ ​it​ ​stands,​ ​we​...

Amy Cooke
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Carolinas Academic Leadership Network hosts kickoff event in Charlotte

A new initiative designed to train and support local school board members in North and South Carolina kicked off in Charlotte Thursday. The Carolinas Academic Leadership Network (CALN) aims to foster a commitment to student achievement, parental empowerment, and academic excellence among school board members and prepare them with the tools to effectively improve student achievement in their districts.

Zach Rounceville
Opinion

Partisan elections are the best kind

When I returned home to North Carolina from the nation’s capital in 1989 and subsequently registered to vote, I opted not to join a political party. Although my conservative views were already well-established — and publicly on display in the syndicated newspaper column I’d created three years earlier — I considered it inappropriate for a...

John Hood
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Red tide in New Hanover as GOP wins all 4 school board seats

Statewide, a third of North Carolina’s school board seats were on the ballot Tuesday. Republicans had a rough night in many urban races, but in New Hanover County, home of coastal city Wilmington, Republicans swept all four seats on the board of education. The board had been 5-2 Democrat, but after the election will now...

David Larson

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Gubernatorial Ticket, Partisan Judicial Race Measures Before House

RALEIGH — The House Elections Committee approved a proposed constitutional amendment that would have candidates for governor and lieutenant governor run as a team. It also backed measures shifting elections for appellate judges and local school boards from nonpartisan to partisan races.

Barry Smith
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