On the same night that the DOJ announced it would not withhold federal funds to NC while the lawsuits over HB2 play out, news leaked that the Obama administration's Departments of ... Keep Reading
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Public Schools Undergoing Historic Shift
Part 2 of 2 In Part 1, we looked at Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) enrollment as an indicator of the growing gap between the educational options now available at the ... Keep Reading
What Wake Enrollment Stats Really Mean
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
Untangling Budget Plans Regarding Teacher Assistants
Sixty-plus days past a July 1st deadline and North Carolina still has no state budget. One issue that many think is prolonging the current stalemate is what to do about teacher ... Keep Reading
Poll Reveals Voters’ Views on Education
A new Civitas Poll of registered North Carolina voters shows they are open to options for schools, assessment of students, and education funding. As for assessments, voters were ... Keep Reading
Poll Reveals NC Voters’ Views on Education
July 6, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Bob Luebke (919) 834-2099 bob.luebke@nccivitas.org RALEIGH – A new Civitas Poll of registered North Carolina voters shows ... Keep Reading
How to Reform Testing (Part II)
In Part I, we discussed why parents, teachers and the public in general think schools do too much testing. After all, the average public school student will take 18 standardized ... Keep Reading
School choice: the end of the public schools?
Does school choice led to the destruction of the public schools? That’s a claim Matt Ladner asks in a recent blog post on Jay P. Greene's Blog. Arizona’s vast array of school ... Keep Reading
Partisan Email Sent Using a Chapel Hill School’s Network
A message from Seawell Elementary School was sent to all members of the school’s email network system on Monday, and a concerned parent has since passed along the message. The ... Keep Reading
Numbers show why NC Lottery a bad gamble for schools
29 percent. That is the percentage of lottery revenue actually transferred to fund education programs in 2012, about $435 million. How is the lottery revenue ... Keep Reading
