In Part I of our two-part response to the Department of Public Instruction's Common Core Demystified, (CCD) we confronted DPI's claims that Common Core Standards are state-led and ... Keep Reading
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2013-14 State Budget: Modest Spending Increase, Significant Legislative Changes
Nearly a month into the 2013-14 fiscal year, Gov. Pat McCrory is set to sign the state budget into law today. The budget spends a total of $20.6 billion, up about 2.5 percent from ... Keep Reading
WSSU and Bowman Gray Stadium: A Bad Deal
Last November, Chancellor Donald Reaves of Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) joined Nathan Hatch, the President of Wake Forest University, and Susan Pauly, president of Salem ... Keep Reading
Update to DPS Home Leave Program for Criminals. Are You Still Worried?
The Prison Home Leave program has been modified, according to the media, as of last week. While some people are resting better knowing that 15-20 of the offenders are no longer ... Keep Reading
DPI Defense of Common Core Is Mystifying – Part I
On June 13 the state Department of Public Instruction (DPI) released Common Core Demystified. The document was intended to quell what DPI regarded as confusion and stem the growing ... Keep Reading
Money Monday, Not Moral Monday
Liberal protesters at the General Assembly have been claiming they are acting in the name of morality, but a new Civitas study shows the role played by money – more than $100 ... Keep Reading
Murderers Get Out of Jail on Weekends
Imagine that one of your loved ones had been murdered and your family had undergone the long ordeal of watching a trial. The murderer has been sentenced and (you think) is in jail ... Keep Reading
Giving NC a Road Map
“Are we there yet?” Any parent who has taken long road trips with young children has likely heard that phrase countless times. To the children, the only thing that matters is ... Keep Reading
HB 725 – We Already Give Juveniles a Second Chance — Maybe even a Third
HB 725 “Young Offenders Rehabilitation Act” has been heard in a House committee meeting. HB 725 would “raise the age” from 16 to 18 for someone to be tried as an adult if he or ... Keep Reading
The True Conservative Response on Common Core
In a misnamed article, “Common Core is a conservative victory,” Republican education reformers Chester Finn and Michael Petrilli used a recent News &Observer op-ed to try and ... Keep Reading
