Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses the N.C. political left’s use of the Leandro school funding lawsuit. Learn more here: “The Leandro long game: How the left has weaponized a 27-year-old court case.”
Locke’s Terry Stoops discusses the weaponization of N.C.’s Leandro case
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