Advocates for hundreds of millions of new dollars in court-ordered N.C. education spending are renewing their appeals to the N.C. Supreme Court. Two filings Thursday urge the state’s highest court to take its next step in the long-running Leandro lawsuit.
As the N.C. Supreme Court is considering its next steps in the long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit, Gov. Roy Cooper has added a new twist to the dispute. Cooper’s proposed 2022-23 state budget adjustments would cover portions of a court-ordered Leandro compliance plan that remain unfunded to date.
The state's highest court no longer faces an active controversy over judges ordering money transferred out of the state treasury.
Judge Michael Robinson's choices extend beyond the simple adjustment of numbers.
Editor’s note: This developing story was last updated Monday afternoon with reply briefs. Last update: 5:05 p.m. Plaintiffs and N.C. Justice Department lawyers are urging a judge to order $795 million in new state education spending. Legal briefs filed since Friday confirm agreement from both groups about whittling down the size of a $1.75 billion...
It is too often the case that media outlets will cite a research paper, cherry-pick information, and make misleading claims about what the findings entail. Unfortunately, this is precisely what our friends at NC Policy Watch have done in their recent piece about a study from Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy that examined...
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 is a key piece in the decades-old Leandro case. But top Republican lawmakers —...
The mainstream media and pundits on both sides of the aisle focus an extraordinary amount of time and energy examining public school funding. It is not surprising that they do. Surveys suggest that most Americans believe that public schools should receive more taxpayer money. According to the left-leaning PDK/Gallup Poll, “Lack of financial support for...
Terry Stoops on political spin surrounding education spending; Supreme Court candidates offer their views; lawmakers hear legal arguments related to unemployment appeals process; John Staddon refutes common beliefs about smoking restrictions; Rick Henderson on N.C. congressional races
Additional progress will have to come largely from productivity gains, not from simply spending tomorrow’s money on yesterday’s terms.
In real per-pupil terms, state spending on public schools rose 3 percent over the past four years, following an 11 percent drop during the last two years of Democratic rule.
