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NC Sen. Graig Meyer resigns to head NC Justice Center
Former NC lawmaker Graig Meyer named executive director of the NC Justice Center, a Raleigh-based progressive policy and advocacy organization.
Opinion
Eliminate licensure to solve ‘teacher shortage’ and reduce classroom radicalism
Over recent years, voices across the education establishment have been crying out about a rise in teacher vacancies in classrooms across North Carolina. But things are a bit more complicated. For example, in Charlotte Observer’s late 2023 article on NC’s alleged teacher shortage, it admits: School districts opened the school year with 3,584 teaching vacancies,...
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‘Do your homework:’ NC Justice Center report on vouchers draws criticism
A report by the left-wing North Carolina Justice Center claims to have uncovered 62 instances of private schools receiving more funds from the Opportunity Scholarship Program than they have students enrolled. The author says there were a total of $2.3 million fraudulent payments. But critics of the report contend that it inaccurately represents the truth,...
Opinion
Political left’s hypocrisy on donor privacy bill
Taxpayers deserve to know how their money is being spent, and private citizens deserve protection from government overreach into their lives. These seem like simple concepts, right? The establishment left in North Carolina seems to disagree. Progressives are performing acrobatic leaps to justify their opposition to two bills introduced this legislative session – and in...
Opinion
Transparency of operations is a constitutional issue
Senate Bill 355, legislation that promotes and enhances public access to the performance records of public employees, is generating significant resistance from various state organizations that have several things in common—they are all union related and they are determined to continue operating without public scrutiny. The Government Transparency Act of 2021, championed by Sen. Norman...
Opinion
Plans for tax increases hide behind election-year rhetoric
You'll search in vain for a Democrat on the N.C. ballot who's as clear as Walter Mondale about raising your rates.
Opinion
Teacher pay deserves reasoned debate
Structuring pay around years of experience and degrees awarded was a bad idea. We should be glad North Carolina is moving away from it.
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.
Opinion
Boost facility funding from lottery
To swap broader taxes on sales, income, or property with a narrower revenue source was, of course, one of the main attractions of the state lottery for some proponents.
Opinion
Operatives Recycle Hagan Claim
I suppose if you thought Kay Hagan’s reelection campaign was a brilliant exercise in political rhetoric, you might try to reuse her talking points to win the political debates of 2015.
Opinion
Read Tax Claims Skeptically
When you include all taxes together, the wealthiest 20 percent have tax burdens more than twice as large as a share of income than those of the poorest 20 percent.
Opinion
Tanks for Nothing
The head of ProgressNow, Arshad Hasan, talked about his movement’s efforts not just to compete with conservative think tanks but to destroy them.
