Sen. Harry Brown, R-Onslow, leads a bipartisan group of legislators promoting career and technical education in North Carolina’s public schools. Brown discusses legislation he’s promoting this year, and he and other speakers, including student Courtney Clapp (pictured above), discuss CTE’s benefits during a Feb. 26, 2009, news conference. One potential benefit is a reduction in the high-school dropout rate, an issue addressed in a recent John Locke Foundation Spotlight report.
Opinion
Politics should be less important
It might sound odd to hear this from someone who’s been writing a syndicated column on politics for nearly four decades, but politics has become vastly more important in our lives than it should be. Virtually every decision we make in our ostensibly free society is now subject to review, refinement, and reversal by some...