President Joe Biden made a stop in Raleigh Thursday to tout not only how Bidenomics is helping the country succeed on many fronts but also that the White House is investing another $82 million to connect 16,000 additional homes and businesses to high-speed internet in North Carolina.
A federal judge has denied class-action status in a lawsuit challenging race-based membership qualifications for an Asheville advisory board. Plaintiffs had argued that the rules discriminate against white applicants to the Human Relations Commission.
Asheville residents challenging membership requirements for the city’s Human Relations Commission hope to pursue a class-action case. Paperwork filed Friday in federal court seeks to extend the suit to anyone disqualified by race from
A federal judge will not grant an emergency stay blocking a scheduled vote next week for new members of Asheville’s Human Relations Commission. The judge also has rejected the city’s request to dismiss a lawsuit challenging commission membership.
Plaintiffs challenging appointments to Asheville’s Human Relations Commission are seeking an emergency restraining order and injunction in federal court. They claim the city is using unconstitutional racial preferences in choosing members for the advisory board. Asheville plans to make appointments to the board on Oct. 10.
North Carolina’s Hispanic population continues to grow — from 5% of the state’s population in the 2000 census, to 8% in the 2010 census, to 11% in the 2020 census. This is still a lower percentage than America at large, which is 19% Hispanic, but the steady growth brings questions about how the increased Hispanic...
As schools begin to reopen, more than a year after “two weeks to stop the spread” campaigns shuttered classrooms, newly released documents indicate the American Federation of Teachers union authored pieces of the pandemic health guidance that came from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, as it relates to schools. The documents are in the...
A new survey from a national school-choice advocacy organization finds broad and stable support for educational choice heading into 2021. The survey, conducted by Beck Research and released by the American Federation for Children, was of likely general election voters and found school choice favored by a 65% to 25% margin — including 66% of...
North Carolinians know more about COVID-19 hospitalizations than they did a week ago. But data critical to the fight against COVID-19 remain missing from North Carolina’s dashboard, researchers say. North Carolina’s new dashboard shows a regional picture of hospital capacity and COVID-19 hospitalizations. The state began breaking down COVID-19 hospitalizations by region and bed type...
As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations rise across North Carolina, key parts of the state’s science and data remain inaccessible to the public. “North Carolina is relying on the data and the science to lift restrictions responsibly, and right now our increasing numbers show we need to hit the pause button while we work to stabilize...
More than two-thirds of likely voters back letting parent use tax dollars to send children to the public or private school which best fits their needs, a new poll shows. The 67-percent support level is 4 percentage points higher than a similar poll taken a year ago. The National School Choice Poll of 1,200 likely...
