Matthew Ladner, senior adviser of policy and research at the Foundation for Excellence in Education, discusses the funding pressures North Carolina will face in public education in the years ahead. Ladner 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.”...