Instead of the traditional top-10 issues in public education, the Public School Forum of North Carolina picked just one. Fully complying with Leandro, North Carolina’s long-running education funding lawsuit, is the top education issue for 2020, the…
The Republican and Democratic candidates for state superintendent had similar positions on the causes of school re-segregation and the need to find common ground. On school choice, however, they couldn’t have been more different. Candidates vying for the job took part in a forum…
Sen. Deanna Ballard, R-Watauga, wants the presiding judge in the Leandro case to share his perspective on education policy before the Senate Education Committee. Ballard, a co-chair of the Senate committee, sent Superior Court Judge David Lee a letter Tuesday, Feb.
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. Here’s a week in review: New CEO: Amy O. Cooke has joined the John Locke Foundation as its new CEO.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with additional comments from Rep. Craig Horn, R-Union. The long-running Leandro case hasn’t led to a constitutional bombshell — as some experts feared — but, after years of waiting, presiding Judge David Lee has finally set the…
Twenty-five years ago, Robert Leandro and his mother, Kathleen Leandro, lent their name to one of the most significant education lawsuits in North Carolina history. At the time, the family lived in Raeford, a town with a small tax base and a struggling economy. Robert attended a local…
North Carolina’s Republican legislators say they were left out of focus groups for a major education report that could seriously affect future policymaking. On Dec. 10, a 300-page report from research nonprofit WestEd was disclosed to the public. The dense document…
On the questions of how much to fund and how to deliver public education, there is no research consensus broad enough to convert into a legal mandate. There never will be.
North Carolina should make it easier for public school teachers to grow professionally, and for principals to spend money and direct personnel as they see fit, a pivotal new education report says. Unfortunately, media chatter about inadequate school funding is overshadowing…
A long-anticipated report from an education consulting group suggests North Carolina should boost public school spending by at least $8 billion over the next eight years to satisfy its constitutional obligations. The report doesn’t address where policymakers will get the money. The 300-page…
