Not all the dust has settled from last week's election. Among the topics still reverberating around North Carolina: Marriage Amendment. North Carolina was the 30th state to ... Keep Reading
Bringing Perspective to the Budget Wars
The debate over the State budget’s impact on public education has generated much heat and little light in the last few weeks. Democrats point to large budget reductions, personnel ... Keep Reading
NCLB Waivers: The Means to Another End
Twenty-six states and the District of Columbia have requested waivers from the Federal government for No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation. The waivers free the states from ... Keep Reading
NCAE Continues to Muddy the Waters
There they go again: The North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) continues to pump out misleading claims about Civitas and the state's public school system. Last month’s ... Keep Reading
NCAE Misses the Mark, Again
The February 6 Daily Political Briefing by the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) resorts to misleading statements about teacher pay in an unsuccessful attempt to ... Keep Reading
Behind the DPI School Personnel Numbers
The Department of Public Instruction has released the final public school personnel [1] figures for 2011-12. Last week we posted preliminary school personnel data on the Civitas ... Keep Reading
Gov. Perdue’s Tax Increase for Schools: A Bad Idea at a Bad Time
Yesterday, Gov. Perdue released a statement supporting a three-quarters-of-one- cent increase in the state sales tax to stop what she says are “deep and unnecessary cuts to public ... Keep Reading
Preliminary DPI Personnel Data Shows Increase in State-Supported Education Jobs
Preliminary DPI Personnel Data Shows Increase in State-Supported Education Personnel Preliminary public school personnel data from the Department of Public Instruction shows ... Keep Reading
Number of State-Funded Teachers Increases
To read release click here Jan 12, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Bob Luebke (919) 834-2099 bob.luebke@NCCivitas.org Raleigh, N.C. – While headlines scream about ... Keep Reading
NCAE: A Giant Chasm Between Rhetoric and Reality
NCAE: A Giant Chasm Between Rhetoric and Reality Last week the North Carolina General Assembly successfully overrode Gov. Perdue’s veto of SB 727- No Dues Checkoff for ... Keep Reading
