Advocates gathered in downtown Raleigh Jan. 24 to celebrate National School Choice Week during a year when universal school choice is coming to the Tar Heel State. Held this year from Jan. 21-27, National School Choice Week is a nationwide celebration of diversity in educational options. There are a total of 27,112 school choice events planned across...
Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s this week’s review: Cooper vetoes: Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed eight bills on July 2, including three bills to reopen parts of the economy still closed under COVID-19 restrictions. The governor...
[This story has been updated with additional information.] Education officials and lawmakers are scrambling to prevent the lay-offs of 220 teachers at the N.C. Virtual Public School during the upcoming fall semester. State law requires a mandatory 31-day break in service for temporary employees. As a result, 220 teachers at NCVPS won’t be allowed to...
N.C. House District 22 (Bladen and most of Sampson counties). • William Brisson, Republican (six-term incumbent). Occupation: Farmer. Career highlights: Former chairman of Bladen County Board of Commissioners, and Bladen County Hospital Board of Trustees and Bladen Medical Center. Chairman of House Appropriations Committee for Health and Human Services, and vice chairman of four other...
The Public Schools of Robeson County voted unanimously Jan. 9 to approve Southside Ashpole Elementary School for transfer to the Innovative School District. Southside Ashpole will contract with a school operator for five years starting in the 2018-19 school year. At the end of the contract, the elementary school will transfer back to the school...
The Innovative School District plans to recommend Southside Ashpole Elementary in Rowland as the first school to take part in the program, beginning with the 2018-19 school year. Southside Ashpole Elementary was part of an original list of 48 low-performing schools in North Carolina eligible as an ISD. The program aims to give charter school...
RALEIGH — The N.C. Virtual Public School has done a poor job tracking enrollment figures, a new audit said. The report also criticized the school for failing to monitor access to its registration system, and for the absence of an independent review of enrollment data. In addition, the audit chided the school for allowing enrollment errors in its annual report.
RALEIGH — Although authorized spending on K-12 public education in the newly enacted state budget will increase by nearly 5 percent over the previous school year, opponents of education reform have orchestrated rallies, flooded the media, and vilified the Republican-dominated General Assembly for its sweeping agenda.
RALEIGH — The event featured the intensity and fervor of a tent revival or a civil-rights demonstration. In the eyes of the participants, perhaps it was. The cause for celebration? The promise by the General Assembly’s new leaders to remove the state’s cap on charter schools.
RALEIGH — A newly published survey of North Carolina university faculty members raises concerns about misleading and poorly constructed questions on two end-of-course tests used in North Carolina's public schools. The John Locke Foundation's latest Spotlight report highlights the survey's results and recommends testing changes.
RALEIGH — Heading into North Carolina’s primary May 6, candidates on several levels staked out positions on programs that offer an alternative to district-assigned public schools, but as the dust settles several weeks after the election, vocal supporters of charter schools and nonpublic alternatives are falling away.
