An NC Senate committee on May 13 unanimously advanced Senate Bill 990, which would study a shift to weighted K-12 funding, create a $395 educational wallet pilot, and shield campus disciplinary records from open-records requests.
The agreement includes an average 8% teacher pay raise, with legislators saying the plan would make NC’s starting teacher pay “No. 1 in the South.”
While last long session led to some disappointments and distractions, there is still reason to think that conservatives in the legislature will solve important issues like they have in the past.
The data shows that many students in NC are simply not prepared to compete in top STEM fields after graduation, let alone to read at grade level.
For years, public discourse has been dominated by division, partisanship, and a winner-take-all mentality that has often alienated citizens, broken bonds among friends and family, and discouraged solutions-oriented policymaking. Yet, many Americans are embracing a new chapter rooted in a renewed focus on individual liberty and responsible governance.
Article 9 doesn’t say how “free public schools” should be organized or how student success is measured. Nor does it limit the scope of what the legislature can require schools to do.
I offered amendments to protect biological female students and to provide single-stall bathrooms for trans students. My amendments were unilaterally shut down.
The caricatures of school-choice leaders presented by progressive critics bears no resemblance to the actual human beings I know, work with, or love.
According to North Carolina Department of Public Instruction 2022-2023 assessment data, there is not a single assessed subject in which even 40% of North Carolina’s students with disabilities scored “Grade Level Proficient” or above. Stated another way, in 2022-2023, 84.3% of North Carolina’s students with disabilities could not read proficiently in grades 3 through 8,...
With the summer holidays finished and kids back in school, the long session of the North Carolina General Assembly is exiting turn four and headed down the back straight to the checkered flag of this monumental and historic legislative session. Over the next week, some major decisions will be made by North Carolina’s leading political...
It’s a troubling time for many American families. With inflation cutting deep into their ability to buy basic household necessities, violence appears to be on the rise, and too many schools — traditionally a solid source of support — seem to be faltering or even working against them. Amidst the concerns for our country, though,...
