John Locke Foundation Senior Vice President Becki Gray and Chairman John Hood answer host Tom Campbell’s questions about the lawsuit pitting North Carolina’s superintendent of public instruction against the State Board of Education. These exchanges took place during the July 2, 2017, edition of “N.C. Spin.”
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