JLF probes academic research on boosting student achievement

After scouring nearly 900 academic journal articles from the past 25 years, John Hood and Terry Stoops produced a new John Locke Foundation report detailing strong evidence that public policies promoting school choice and competition have the best likelihood of boosting student achievement. NCPoliticalNews.com and N.C. Senate Republicans’ daily press email promoted Hood and Stoops’ work.

The Winston-Salem Journal interviewed Hood for a recent article on targeted tax incentives. The Fayetteville Observer interviewed Hood about North Carolina legislators’ priorities for their 2014 session. The Beaufort Observer highlighted his recent column puncturing the thoroughly discredited claim that North Carolina’s 2013 tax reform package will raise taxes for 80 percent of North Carolinians. N.C. Senate Republicans promoted that column, along with Hood’s analysis of the debate over Common Core public school standards.

The Senate GOP highlighted Stoops’ column on state education funding. The Greensboro News & Record‘s “Off The Record” blog cited that column. The Heartland Institute’s Budget & Tax News interviewed Stoops for a story about the possibility of open enrollment in North Carolina public schools.

The “N.C. Spin” website picked up Stoops’ “Locker Room” blog entry on a Washington Post fact check of the bogus claim about tax increases for 80 percent of North Carolinians. WRAL.com cited JLF research in its own fact check on the same false claim about tax increases.

Director of Fiscal Policy Studies Sarah Curry discussed the proposed Haywood County occupancy tax increase for a Heartland Institute podcast. NCPoliticalNews.com promoted a JLF news release featuring Curry and her research colleagues analyzing Gov. Pat McCrory’s state budget proposal. NCPoliticalNews.com also highlighted Health and Human Services Policy Analyst Katherine Restrepo‘s research newsletter on Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s latest Obamacare enrollment numbers.

N.C. Senate Republicans highlighted Director of Regulatory Studies Jon Sanders‘ column detailing problems with North Carolina’s certificate of public advantage. Sanders discussed North Carolina’s recent fight over renewable energy mandates with a Kansas-based reporter who is looking into the issue on a national scale. 

A WRAL Television story on legislation designed to change penalties for juvenile criminal offenders included a state legislator’s citation of information from a John Locke Foundation report on the topic.