News
Audit finds $97.3M in NC DPS financial reporting errors
The NC DPS had $97.3 million in financial reporting errors for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 2025, according to an audit released on Wednesday NCOSA.
News
Stein makes new appointments to state boards and commissions
On Friday, Governor Josh Stein’s office announced a new round of appointments to boards and commissions across North Carolina.
Opinion
Opportunities and obstacles for NC microschools
Despite the opportunities that the expansion of school choice has created for microschools, certain obstacles prevent them from realizing their full potential.
News
Legislators briefed on new technology to eliminate PFAS in NC water sources
North Carolina has become a testing ground for the technology, with successful pilot projects in Pittsboro, Raleigh, and Wake Forest, in addition to ongoing projects in Burlington, Cary, and other areas in the southeast.
News
NC Chamber recognizes outstanding NC innovators, leaders at annual meeting
On Tuesday afternoon, the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce hosted its annual meeting and awards ceremony, highlighting some of the most innovative and bold leaders in the state.
Opinion
Activist group seeks to reform Covid-19 mandates in long term facilities
“The day you can hug your loved ones again” never came for the 5,009 North Carolinians who died of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities between June 25, 2020, and March 4. This death count doesn’t include the many more thousands of deaths occurring in facilities around the state unrelated to the virus but can be attributed to COVID-related isolation. Loved ones of...
Opinion
Court packing: Repeating history’s unconscionable mistakes
A national pandemic. New minimum wage standards. Calls for a “New Deal.” If you didn’t know any better, you might think I was referring to early 20th Century America —when the flu ravaged the nation and President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed unprecedented progressive policies seemingly every day. But no. The events of recent years have revived countless struggles from our...
Opinion
Choice and regulation form spectrum
On balance, there is likely no better mechanism for identifying and replicating successful schools over time than allow parents to make choices — and for education dollars to follow those choices.
News
Appeals Court Schedules Alamance School Records Hearing
RALEIGH — The Times-News newspaper of Burlington sued the Alamance-Burlington Board of Education for copies of closed meeting minutes at which a report was released about questionable activities by then-Superintendent Lillie Cox in preparation for a vote to fire her. Cox subsequently resigned when the board went into open session. On April 6, a three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in the case.
