Bob Luebke

Improving public education in North Carolina is a topic that usually generates more heat than light. One of the reasons is that much of the discussion is dominated by long-held ... Keep Reading

Bob Luebke Senior Policy Analyst bob.luebke@ nccivitas.org 919-834-2099 The 2007-2008 legislative sessions were marked by strong but uneven growth in appropriations for the ... Keep Reading

Improving K-12 public education was one of lawmakers’ top priorities for the 2007-2008 legislative sessions. In spite of boosting education appropriations, expanding selected ... Keep Reading

Fifty-three percent of North Carolina’s $21.3 billion FY 2008-09 state budget is devoted to funding education programs.  The FY08-09 state budget provides $11.4 billion, ... Keep Reading

Is Mike Easley America’s greatest education governor? The National Education Association (NEA) recently said so and honored the North Carolina Governor for “his ... Keep Reading

We’ve heard the assertion a thousand times: higher education IS the engine of economic growth. An educated population IS the foundation on which to build the knowledge ... Keep Reading

This article first appeared in the Raleigh News & Observer. RALEIGH - Last week the state Board of Education voted to strip some funding from charter schools that fail to ... Keep Reading

This article was originally published in the Fayetteville Observer. Since passage of legislation to legalize the education lottery in North Carolina in 2005, gambling has been ... Keep Reading

“Cool wisdom.” That’s the phrase the News & Observer used in an editorial (“Defending Open Doors”) to summarize outgoing community college ... Keep Reading

On November 7, 2007, Daniel Sullivan, chief legal counsel of the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) directed the state’s 58 community colleges to begin admitting ... Keep Reading