More than seven months after he started the job, State Controller Nels Roseland has won official confirmation from the N.C. Senate. Senators voted 47-0 to approve Roseland as controller through June 2029. The seven-year appointment also requires a vote in the state House.
The new judge appointed to oversee North Carolina’s long-running Leandro education funding case will hold his first hearing March 10 in Wake County. The first task for Superior Court Judge James Ammons is to decide how much money the state must spend to comply with earlier Leandro orders.
More than $677 million of a court-ordered state education plan remains unfunded, according to new documents from state lawyers. The documents filed Monday respond to the N.C. Supreme Court’s latest ruling in the long-running Leandro case.
The state controller is objecting to a timeline for addressing the N.C. Supreme Court’s latest Leandro education funding order. Paperwork filed Monday with the trial judge in the case spells out the details.
The N.C. Supreme Court is ordering state government officials to transfer what is likely to be hundreds of millions of dollars out of the state’s treasury to fund a court-ordered education plan. In a 4-3 party-line vote, the court’s Democratic justices overruled Republican colleagues and rejected Republican lawmakers’ arguments in the long-running Leandro case. GOP lawmakers had argued that a forced money transfer would violate the state constitution’s separation of powers.
Carolina Journal recaps key aspects of the long-running Leandro school funding story. This case returns to the state’s highest court Aug. 31.
State government’s new controller is asking the N.C. Supreme Court to jettison a proposed forced transfer of $785 million out of the state treasury for court-ordered education purposes. Acting Controller Nels Roseland’s request arrived Monday as parties in the long-running Leandro lawsuit submitted their latest round of briefs in the case. Roseland took over the...
Plaintiffs in the long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit are seeking Justice Phil Berger Jr.’s recusal from the N.C. Supreme Court’s consideration of the case. Paperwork requesting Berger’s recusal arrived two days after Republican legislative leaders urged Justice Anita Earls to recuse herself from the case.
Legislative leaders are urging N.C. Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls to recuse herself from the long-running Leandro school funding case. Lawmakers cite Earls’ previous work connected to the lawsuit.
The long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit will return to the N.C. Supreme Court for oral arguments on Aug. 31. An earlier court order says a decision in the case will "be filed upon a date to be chosen in the Court's discretion."
Lawyers from N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein’s Justice Department urge the N.C. Supreme Court to uphold an order forcing state government to fund $785 million for education-related expenses. State lawyers make that request in their latest filing in the long-running Leandro school funding dispute. Legislative leaders and the state controller have challenged the order. It...
