President Donald Trump has named North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein, a Democrat, to the National Governors Association’s Council of Governors. Stein will co-chair the council with Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
April’s Council of State meeting got off to a late start Tuesday as Gov. Roy Cooper postponed it to take a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other governors across the country.
Earlier this week, the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles was hustling to process applications for the federal government’s REAL ID program. But President Trump has given NCDMV, and its counterparts across the nation, a welcome reprieve. Trump announced Monday, March 23, Washington will push back the Oct. 1, 2020, deadline for enforcement of REAL ID...
Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC was formed in 2014. The consortium would build a 600-mile pipeline to bring natural gas from West Virginia to Virginia and North Carolina. The next year, ACP filed an application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; ACP would also need environmental permits in each of the three states and applied for...
As the Cooper administration engaged in negotiations involving the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a national governors’ group warned a Cooper adviser against a state agency taking action comparable to extortion. The warning came in a Dec. 8, 2017, email from a National Governors Association staffer to Cooper energy policy adviser Jeremy Tarr. The email came to...
The federal government relocated more Syrian refugees to North Carolina in the last six months than it did the previous 22 months, even as Gov. Pat McCrory and U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, R-8th District, continue to warn that the screening process for admission to the United States remains broken, posing potential danger to the state. “We’re...
RALEIGH — A U.S. Supreme Court decision that many opponents of restrictive occupational licensing rules saw as a victory for small-scale entrepreneurs may wind up being a setback, as the General Assembly’s Program Evaluation Division wants to create an Occupational Licensing Commission to supervise licensing agencies and consolidate some of those boards.
RALEIGH — Legislative leaders will allow the Academic Standards Review Commission to operate with temporary funding from the Department of Administration. When the General Assembly convenes in January, lawmakers say they’ll give the commission an operating budget so it can hire staff and conduct research.
RALEIGH — Legislation passed by the General Assembly empowering a commission to study and replace Common Core State Standards gave the commission no funding to hire consultants or conduct research. If the commission does not replace individual components of the Common Core State Standards with rules and guidelines specific to North Carolina, then the original Common Core standards will take effect in the state.
RALEIGH — While House and Senate leaders remain at odds over the state’s $21.1 billion General Fund budget and teacher pay increases, they have found common ground on another subject — replacing Common Core standards. The bill is on today’s Senate calendar for a vote. The House is likely to take up the measure next week when it returns to Raleigh.
RALEIGH — Parents and taxpayers continue to ask questions about new Common Core standards as they are implemented in North Carolina’s public schools. Five months after releasing a question-and-answer primer on Common Core, the John Locke Foundation recently released a revised, expanded version of that primer. It tackles 60 key issues in a Q&A format. Dr. Terry Stoops, John Locke Foundation director of education studies, discussed Common Core with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.
