In the waning hours of crossover week, the N.C. House passed a bill to open new funding sources and add flexibility to charter schools. House Bill 729 passed the House, 63-52. The bill would make several key changes to the state’s charter schools…
After almost a year of being out of school, in a different school, or in no school at all, children and parents are embracing the opportunity to return to in-person instruction full time. Underneath all that enthusiasm, however, is an important yet unanswered question: how much learning have students lost…
As schools begin to reopen, more than a year after “two weeks to stop the spread” campaigns shuttered classrooms, newly released documents indicate the American Federation of Teachers union authored pieces of the pandemic health guidance that came from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, as it relates to schools.
The N.C. Senate has passed its own version of a school-choice expansion bill that would open the state’s three choice programs to even more low- and middle-income households and families of students with special needs. Senate Bill 671 passed largely along party lines in a 29-20 vote on Tuesday,…
Republican state legislators have the full backing of their voting base on three key issues now being debating at the North Carolina General Assembly. This is according to new survey results of likely 2022 GOP primary voters obtained exclusively by Carolina Journal. Large majorities of North Carolina Republican…
North Carolina’s best-performing charter schools would have an easier time opening new campuses in challenging settings, under a bill that won endorsement from a state House committee. House Bill 616 won unanimous approval after less than three minutes of discussion Tuesday in the Education K-12 Committee. “The reason that…
A new poll sponsored by a school-choice advocacy organization shows support for educational choice nationwide has increased to a new level of 71% of registered voters. The poll — conducted by Real Clear Opinion Research on behalf of the American Federation for Children…
Parents will not forget their school board members who even today refuse to vote for opening classrooms to students who want to be there.
The good news is that North Carolina institutions aren’t just producing good ideas about how to improve school leadership. They’re on the ground implementing them.
If you only ever read The Washington Post or The New York Times and watch MSNBC, you might believe conservatives have nothing to say about race. The view that conservatives are racists is prominent in academia, too. The “Southern Strategy” theory argues the GOP built its Southern base by appealing…
