Terry Stoops, John Locke Foundation education policy analyst, reacts to comments from N.C. legislative leaders about education spending. Stoops disputes the notion that growth in state government spending should be attributed mostly to education needs. Stoops offered these remarks during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 302).
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