Education (PreK-12)

For decades, economists have considered the costs and benefits of adopting variations of highly developed apprenticeship systems operating in Germany and Switzerland. Such efforts are based on the belief that…

This week, House Republicans released their full biennial budget proposal.  Budget writers included parts of the budget that were not unveiled last week, such as teacher and state employee…

Earlier this month, the National Education Association (NEA) released their annual “Rankings and Estimates” report.  In addition to North Carolina’s surge in average teacher pay, NEA researchers estimated…

This week, those on the Left have offered various critiques of my awesome new Spotlight report, North Carolina: A Destination for Teachers.  They took issue with two aspects of…

During the 2015-16 school year, North Carolina licensed (via interstate reciprocity agreements) and subsequently employed 1,556 out-of-state teachers.1,2,3 At the same time, 828 public school teachers resigned to teach in other states. All told, the state imported 728 more teachers than it exported last year.

For the last several months, lawmakers and school districts have been at odds over class size requirements for grades K – 3.  On one side, some members of the…

On Tuesday, the Charlotte Observer reported that the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools planned to use a book titled “Jacob’s New Dress” in all first-grade classes as part of the district’s anti-bullying…

Over the last six years, the Republican-led General Assembly has granted school districts unprecedented budget, staffing, and class size flexibility.  Much of that flexibility has come at the request of…

When school officials from Kestrel Heights Charter School reported that 160 of the school’s 399 graduates did not meet state graduation requirements, the anti-charter Left complained that the situation…

You may have heard that the average annual teacher salary in North Carolina fell $163 short of $50,000.  Never mind that the average is $1,896 higher than last year.  Republican…