Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses the latest developments in North Carolina’s long-running school funding legal dispute. Stoops offered these comments during the March 26, 2022, edition of WRAL’s “On The Record.”
Locke’s Terry Stoops analyzes next steps in N.C. school funding legal dispute
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