Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses key elements of the N.C. House and Senate education budgets. Stoops offered these comments during the Aug. 18, 2021, edition of Spectrum News 1’s “Capital Tonight.”
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