Catherine Truitt, senior education adviser to N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory, explains the need for innovation in the state’s public school system. Truitt offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio.
Federal funds bring federal strings
President Donald Trump’s executive orders on education have some North Carolinians crying foul. When the University of North Carolina system moved to comply with Trump’s order against discrimination by federal contractors, for example, a group of UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members argued the resulting prohibition against requiring students to take diversity-themed courses threatened “shared governance principles.”...