When I was asked to join the faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2005, I never dreamt of asking for tenure, even though I was a national, if not global, thought leader in a major and growing field of study. I was hired to create and teach the MBA courses on corporate governance. I had a...
In an April decision, the state’s highest court held that the General Assembly had violated the U.S. Constitution when it stripped teachers of tenure protection. The N.C. Supreme Court’s decision in large part was based on the state’s failure to show such a dramatic step was reasonable and necessary. In 1971, the General Assembly first...
Awarding career status to public school teachers protects the ineffective sandbaggers along with the average and the excellent.
Liberal politicians, activists, and the teacher union may not like it, but the North Carolina General Assembly is not about to abandon its reform strategy for public education.
If North Carolina policymakers want to boost economic growth and job creation, they should fire some teachers.
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