RALEIGH — Tens of thousands of North Carolina students have benefited from at least one version of school choice, which allows parents from every economic background to depart traditional public schools and select options they believe will serve their children better — using vouchers, enrolling in charter schools, or educating their children at home.
RALEIGH — A nonpartisan event promoting educational freedom and opportunity, over its five-year history National School Choice Week has seen all 50 states advance alternatives for parents seeking the best education for their children, said the group's president Andrew Campanella. NSCW held 150 events in 2011, its founding year; that number jumped in 2015 to 11,082.
RALEIGH — Tasked by the city council in December to discuss patio borders, capacity limits, outdoor furniture, and outdoor signage for sidewalk dining areas, on Jan. 13 the Raleigh Appearance Commission discussed changes that would end the requirement for restaurants to separate their patios from public sidewalks with stanchions.
RALEIGH — The State Board of Education will consider again in February a proposal enabling failing traditional public schools to apply for an exemption easing some state regulations so they can operate more like charter schools. The request to the state board came from Alamance-Burlington School Superintendent Bill Harrison, former chairman of the SBOE.
RALEIGH — Ten of the UNC system’s 16 universities were surveyed in the study covering 2010-14, and every one spent more than it collected in revenues — often much more. Of the 10 campuses, only UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University covered more than 85 percent of their athletic budgets with revenues from ticket and merchandise sales, financial donations, endowment profits, broadcasting rights, or sporting-goods contracts. The remainder came from subsidies, often paid with mandatory student fees.
CHAPEL HILL — Protesters calling for the termination of UNC President-Elect Margaret Spellings disrupted today’s meeting of the UNC Board of Governors, raising the prospect of disciplinary action for faculty members who — some board members suggested — may have violated North Carolina’s open meetings law.
CHAPEL HILL — Mistakes in recent proceedings — including the closed-session votes to interview former U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings for the open UNC system president position and to give 12 campus chancellors pay hikes — have pushed the board to schedule discussions about transparency and the state’s open meetings law on its Dec. 10 meeting agenda.
CHAPEL HILL — The UNC Board of Governors’ Oct. 30 closed-session vote to increase pay for 12 chancellors — which passed by a narrow 16-13 margin — will face the scrutiny of the General Assembly’s Joint Legislative Commission on Government Operations Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. in the Legislative Office Building. The pay raises brought protests from legislative leaders who dubbed the action unlawful.
CHAPEL HILL — Amid questions about legislative interference in the actions of the UNC Board of Governors, the board voted Friday to make records of its controversial Oct. 30 meeting available for review by members of the General Assembly. The request by state Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore was made under the state's open meetings law.
RALEIGH — A months-long discussion over legalizing Airbnb in Raleigh will continue, as City Council members Kay Crowder and John Odom objected to rules proposed to allow the service, moving the debate back to the city's Planning Commission. Crowder and Odom say the rules aren't precise enough and Crowder said legalizing Airbnb would reduce the city's supply of affordable housing.
RALEIGH — After months of discussion about how to legalize and regulate Airbnb and similar services in Raleigh, the full city council soon may decide to move the short-term rental service out of legal limbo, based on a rule change passed Oct. 27 by the city’s Planning Commission. Short-term lodging services currently are illegal under Raleigh’s bed-and-breakfast zoning rules, a fact that has led to confusion because it hasn’t been reported correctly in some media outlets, said Eric Braun, chairman of the Planning Commission’s Text Change Committee.
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