Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the debate in the N.C. General Assembly over school calendar laws. Kokai offered these comments during the Feb. 24, 2023, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “State Lines.”
Locke’s Mitch Kokai discusses the debate over N.C. school calendars
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