When the News & Observer recently reported about Wake County schools’ efforts to “sidestep” No Child Left Behind rules on student transfers, John Locke Foundation Education Policy Analyst Terry Stoops offered his assessment of the controversy. Meanwhile, Vice President for Outreach Becki Gray earned some kudos from an Iredell County commissioner in a recent Statesville Record & Landmark column criticizing local tax incentives. (According to Becki Gray of the John Locke Foundation, financial incentives are “bad public policy, bad for business, bad for the taxpayer, and bad for the county.”) In other news, a recent Wilmington Star-News column cited the work of the John Locke Foundation’s Squall Lines blog in highlighting problems associated with government-funded rail service. ([T]he John Locke Foundation’s “Squall Lines” blog … recently included a post titled “Please don’t choo-choo-choose rail.” “Passenger rail rarely makes economic or environmental sense even in large, relatively dense urban communities in the United States,” the blog opined. “It makes no sense whatsoever in corridors such as Raleigh-Wilmington.”)
