Moms for Liberty in Raleigh: Children need more discipline
North Carolina’s education system was in the spotlight at a Moms for Liberty townhall event in Raleigh on Wednesday evening.
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...
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.
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...
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...
Friction between parents and school boards has illustrated yet another argument for creating more districts: it may ensure a better alignment of values.