‘Partisan’ reading bill passes easily
“If Catherine Truitt seeks to be seen as the state’s education leader, the route isn’t via reflexive partisan fealty,” the WRAL-TV editorialist snarled.
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Challenges and opportunities ahead for new state superintendent Truitt
The results are in, and voters selected Republican Catherine Truitt, chancellor of Western Governors University N.C., to be North Carolina’s new superintendent of public instruction. She defeated her Democratic opponent, UNC-Greensboro education professor Jen Mangrum, by around 148,000 votes. Truitt will replace…
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Incoming superintendent Truitt wants to put students, not politics, at center of education policy
As state superintendent, Catherine Truitt will oversee North Carolina’s vast public education system, which spent more than $14 billion this school year. But she won’t be doing it alone. Truitt, a Republican, narrowly defeated Democratic candidate Jen Mangrum for the state’s top education position. Truitt…
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Republican Council of State majority will make policy impacts
Republicans can take a breath, even if their signature red is mixed with myriad shades of blue. They keep control of the N.C. Council of State, 6-4, albeit with narrow margins in all the races. The results remain unofficial. Elections officials are dealing with 41,000 provisional…
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Democrats threw away their shot
Democrats never had a clue, I think, how poorly they handled the protests over the summer and fall that, all too frequently, devolved into destructive riots.
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Candidates clash on reopening schools
Whether to reopen North Carolina’s public schools is the central issue in the campaign for state superintendent, thanks to COVID-19 and the concerns it raises about safety.
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CJ politics week in review, Sept. 28-Oct. 2
Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Grillgate: In North Carolina, barbecue is for fighting. Cal Cunningham learned that the hard way. The Democratic U.S.
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Truitt, Mangrum debate Opportunity Scholarships, reopening schools
Reopening schools is the top priority of Catherine Truitt, the Republican candidate for state superintendent. Truitt also wants to defend the Opportunity Scholarship program, but her Democratic opponent, Jen Mangrum, argues learning must take a back seat to teacher safety. Opportunity Scholarships provide low-income students up…
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GOP leaders, parents call for Cooper to reopen public schools
For Tara Deane’s two youngest children, virtual learning has been a nightmare. Deane’s four children attend school in Wake County. Her two youngest are adopted from China and have severe disabilities. They struggle with basics like learning, speaking, and socializing. The teletherapy services provided by the…
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Opportunity lost? The education empire strikes back at school choice
Traditional public school wasn’t working for Charlonda Brown’s two sons. Her eldest, Amoree, attended private school until the second grade, but Brown lost her job, and the change in circumstances sent him back to public school. When Amoree returned to public school, he found himself miles ahead…