Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses the Leandro school funding lawsuit’s impact on the N.C. budget. Learn more here: “Cooper must decide if the Leandro plan is a state budget deal-breaker.”
Locke’s Terry Stoops analyzes Leandro’s impact on N.C. budget deal
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