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GA canceled state testing for the upcoming year and NC should too
Since April, I have been calling on state officials to cancel state testing for the upcoming school year. I even included that recommendation in Carolina Rebound. According to some guy…
Education
NCAE had nation’s second largest membership loss, no apparent bump from 2018 protest
Mike Antonucci published his annual state-by-state breakdown of National Education Association membership numbers. Overall, 2019 was not a good year for the nation’s largest teacher union. A full year after…
Education
Cooper offers few details about use of federal funds
The federal CARES Act set aside $2,953,230,000 for governors to use to support educational institutions affected by COVID-19 closures. North Carolina will receive $95.6 million from this Governor’s Emergency Education…
Research Brief
Education
The unsettling uncertainty of the next school year
When I’m asked about what to expect in the coming school year, I usually offer a delightfully vague answer: it will be different. I don’t know how it will be…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Criticizing corporate America’s strategy of ‘mob appeasement’
Christopher Bedford of the Federalist takes aim at American corporations’ ongoing efforts to mollify protesters nationwide. Morgan Stanley is not uniquely stupid for empowering an activist whose sole job was…
Elections & Public Integrity
How Supreme Court rulings could hurt Trump’s re-election bid
James Antle explains in a Washington Examiner column why this week’s U.S. Supreme Court rulings could hurt President Trump’s re-election campaign. A major new Supreme Court decision on gay rights…
Elections & Public Integrity
Cunningham labeled ‘boring white man’ by national conservative outlet
Andrew Stiles of the Washington Free Beacon highlights the Democratic challenger in North Carolina’s 2020 U.S. Senate race. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) was perfectly clear about the…
Law & Public Safety
Magical thinking at the Supreme Court
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online pans a key ruling this week from the nation’s highest court. Justice Gorsuch’s reasoning is, of course, impeccable: If you wouldn’t fire a woman…
Liberty
Federalist fracas should concern us all
Editors at National Review Online explain why a recent controversy involving a competing conservative publication and Google should cause concern. So, Google was demonetizing the Federalist, and then it wasn’t.…
Liberty
Barber Licensure’s Role in Deterring Black Entrepreneurship
Occupational licensure is something that presents a barrier to entry for many professions. Those barriers fall hardest at the feet of minority citizens in America. Take the history of licensure…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online features
Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online on Democrats’ demands for increased N.C. education spending despite COVID-19 concerns. Terry Stoops’ Daily Journal analyzes the demand for $427 million in additional…
Regulation
Ideas for a Carolina Rebound: criminal justice and property rights
Our Carolina Rebound report offers sweeping proposals across a broad range of policy areas to revive North Carolina's economy after COVID-19 and Gov. Cooper's shutdown and lockdown orders.