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Briefs aim to sway judge in long-running N.C. school funding legal dispute

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...

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Locke’s Terry Stoops reacts to report that $800 million of $1.7 billion Leandro order is unfunded

Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, responds to state government’s report that almost $800 million of a $1.7 billion Leandro education spending order remains unfunded. Stoops offered these comments during the April 5, 2022, edition of Spectrum News 1’s “Capital Tonight.”

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Appeals Court rejects constitutional challenge to town charter school law

The N.C. Court of Appeals delivered a blow Tuesday to a lawsuit against a 2018 state law allowing some towns to sponsor charter schools. The Appeals Court vacated a trial judge’s order that would have allowed the lawsuit to move forward. The appellate judges’ unanimous decision means the law, S.L. 2018-3, originally known as House...

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Locke’s Terry Stoops responds to proposed N.C. teacher pay changes

Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses a proposal to overhaul North Carolina’s teacher pay structure. Stoops offered these comments for an April 4, 2022, report on WNCN (CBS17).

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State says nearly $800 million from Leandro order remains unfunded

State officials report that close to $800 million remains unfunded from a judge’s $1.7 billion state education spending order. That assessment resulted from a court-ordered comparison of the spending plan and the new state budget. The $1.7 billion order was designed to fund items from the second and third years of a court-imposed Comprehensive Remedial...

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Opportunity Scholarship defenders boost case for moving challenge to three-judge panel

The legal fight over North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program focuses now on whether a single judge or a three-judge panel should hear the case. Lawyers for the state and the scholarships’ parent supporters have filed new briefs supporting the three-judge option. Separate filings in the case titled Kelly v. State of N.C. arrived Wednesday at...

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Greenville, Pitt County schools urge N.C. Supreme Court to block red-light camera ruling

Greenville and the Pitt County school system are asking the N.C. Supreme Court to block a ruling throwing out the city’s red-light camera enforcement program. The city and local school board filed paperwork Tuesday with the state’s highest court. The request would allow the red-light camera program to stay in place while the Supreme Court...

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Locke’s Terry Stoops analyzes next steps in N.C. school funding legal dispute

Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses the latest developments in North Carolina’s long-running school funding legal dispute. Stoops offered these comments during the March 26, 2022, edition of WRAL’s “On The Record.”

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Latest order in N.C. school funding case adds new twist to $1.7 billion dispute

One line in a new court order could mark a major new development in the long-running legal battle over education funding in North Carolina. The line strikes at the heart of a constitutional dispute about $1.7 billion that has reached the state’s highest court. Judge Michael Robinson’s order Friday requests information and legal argument about...

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Locke’s Terry Stoops discusses new judge assigned to N.C. school funding legal dispute

Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses the new judge assigned to oversee North Carolina’s school funding legal dispute. Stoops offered these comments during the March 24, 2022, edition of Spectrum News 1’s “Capital Tonight.”

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