State Superintendent Mark Johnson has a brand new plan to make North Carolina the best state in which to learn and to teach by 2030. He unveiled the #NC2030 plan Tuesday, Feb. 19, at the Innovation and Leadership program, an invitation-only event for school and district leaders, educators, lawmakers, and business and community leaders. “By...
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 — People of all political persuasions have identified significant problems plaguing the American system of higher education. President Obama outlined some reform ideas during a back-to-school tour of New York and Pennsylvania colleges. But Ohio University economist Richard Vedder, director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, believes the president’s proposals fall short in some important ways. During a visit to the Triangle, Vedder discussed higher education challenges with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — Just five months after releasing a report that outlined key questions surrounding new Common Core public school education standards, the John Locke Foundation has revised and expanded the report. Written in a question-and-answer format, the number of topics addressed expands from 35 to 60.
RALEIGH — New public school standards dubbed the Common Core are generating questions for parents and taxpayers across the nation, including North Carolina. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report aims to answer many of those questions. The report addresses 35 topics in a question-and-answer format, starting with the most basic: What is the Common Core State Standards Initiative?
RALEIGH — The Shared Learning Infrastructure, built over the past 18 months, stores millions of K-12 student records identified by name, address, race/ethnicity, economic status, guardian, primary language, grade, test scores, attendance, school and non-school activities, and much more. Even Social Security numbers sometimes are collected and stored.
RALEIGH — School-choice backers said that the nonprofit Charter Management Organizations surveyed in the study dealt with a challenging student population, making their results even more impressive.
MOCKSVILLE — For more than a decade, the decision to build a second high school campus, now estimated to cost $30 million, has pitted the white-collar east side, known as Advance, against the blue-collar west side community of Mocksville.
ASHEVILLE — Five years ago, Buncombe County Early College became a trailblazer in education in North Carolina, opening an innovative high school on the Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College campus.
