Part 1 of 2 Wake County Public Schools are growing at a slower rate than expected, and the reasons for this trend illuminate the growing gap between what the traditional public ... Keep Reading
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NC Common Core Commission Takes a Dive
by A.P. Dillon On Friday, December 18th, the North Carolina Academic Standards Review Commission (ASRC) was tasked with providing recommendations to replace Common Core ... Keep Reading
NC Common Core Commission Wraps Up 15 Month Investigation
By A.P. Dillon Today is the final meeting of the Academic Standards Review Commission (ASRC). The ASRC was tasked by General Assembly Senate Bill 812 with investigating Common ... Keep Reading
Sanctuary City Protester’s Vote Counts
On December 10, the Durham County Board of Elections met to hear the challenge to Ivanna Gonzalez’s voter registration. In less than an hour, the two board members present (one ... Keep Reading
Five Thoughts from Our Recent Poll Results
How do North Carolinians feel about their schools and how their children are educated? The November Civitas Poll provided plenty of good information about those topics. So what did ... Keep Reading
NCAE Defies Law; What’s Next?
Now that the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) has defied an audit mandated by state law, what happens next? We at the Civitas Institute and the Center for Law and ... Keep Reading
NCAE Refuses Compliance with State Audit
Now that the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) has defied an audit mandated by state law, what happens next? We at the Civitas Institute and the Center for Law and ... Keep Reading
The House Passed ESEA Bill To See What Was In It
By A.P. Dillon In less than 21 days, including the Thanksgiving holiday, Congress pushed through a bill that is over 1,000 pages long and has at least 391 pages worth of changes ... Keep Reading
Retention Election Lawsuit: Constitution Means What It Says
Does our state’s constitution mean what it says? That’s the question asked by a recent lawsuit filed in Wake County Superior Court. At issue is the constitutionality of recent ... Keep Reading
N&O Wages War on Standards Review Commission
Commentary from Civitas contributor A.P. Dillon. Over the last few weeks, the Raleigh News and Observer (along with its sister outlet, the Charlotte Observer) has been waging ... Keep Reading
