The John Locke Foundation’s transparency project attracted new attention this week from the Greensboro News & Record. A questionnaire aimed at candidates for the Guilford Board of Education includes the following: “The John Locke Foundation gave the Guilford County Schools a C- in
transparency. What should the system and the school board do to make
system information more accessible to the public?”Meanwhile, the News & Observer‘s education blog focused attention on a Carolina Journal article that raises questions “about the validity of the free and reduced-price lunch data that Wake [County] uses for student assignment.” On the higher education front, the Future of Freedom Foundation published a book review this week from George Leef, director of research for the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy. Leef examined Brian Doherty’s new history of the libertarian movement, Radicals for Capitalism.