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Plan to implement Innovative School District moves forward 

In September, North Carolinians will know which low-performing elementary schools will be considered for the Innovative School District in 2018 and be turned over to charter school operators. Formerly known as the Achievement School District, the Innovative School District was brought about last year by House Bill 1080, from Rep. Rob Bryan, R-Mecklenburg. It wasn’t until March of this year that the North Carolina State Board of Education hired Eric Hall, the...

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JLF’s Terry Stoops critiques hiring process for new CMS administration job

Dr. Terry Stoops, John Locke Foundation vice president for research, questions the process new Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Clayton Wilcox used to hire an administrator for the school system’s culinary services. Stoops offered these comments for a July 7, 2017, report on WSOC-TV.

Dr. Terry Stoops
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JLF’s Terry Stoops discusses factors that improve teacher performance

Dr. Terry Stoops, John Locke Foundation vice president for research, discusses factors that help improve public school teachers’ performance. Stoops offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.

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Schools Struggle With Teacher Turnover

RALEIGH — As the 2004 school year drew to a close, more than 11,000 North Carolina public schoolteachers packed up their books and cleaned out their classrooms for the last time. While some of them left to teach in other North Carolina schools, most were leaving the public school system for good. Caught between the growing number of veteran teachers who reach retirement age, and the exodus of disillusioned new teachers, schools struggle each fall to plug the holes left by departing staff.

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