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House school safety panel focuses on mental health, early prevention

Mental health dominated the first meeting of the House Select Committee on School Safety, with speakers warning legislators about a shortage of student mental health services. Legislators began looking for ways to improve school safety after the Feb. 14 school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and House speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, formed the House Select Committee...

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Charter school funding fairness probed by legislative task force

Sen. Jerry Tillman, R-Randolph, posed a question summing up the sometimes tense relationship between charter schools and traditional public schools. “When I talk to charter people, they say that funding is not equal,” Tillman said during a Thursday, Feb. 22, meeting of the Joint Legislative Task Force on Education Finance Reform. “When I talk to...

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JLF’s John Hood analyzes education governance legal battle

John Locke Foundation Chairman John Hood answers host Tom Campbell’s questions about the lawsuit pitting the N.C. superintendent of public instruction against the State Board of Education. These exchanges took place during the July 30, 2017, edition of “N.C. Spin.”

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