N.C. House and Senate leaders are pursuing distinct plans for education reform. Terry Stoops compares those plans in the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.
Rick Henderson discusses the role politics played in helping to scuttle a proposal to cap and end North Carolina’s renewable energy mandate. You’ll also hear a legislative debate on providing opportunity scholarships, or vouchers, to low-income families who would like to send their children to private schools.
Speaking of school choice, national charter school pioneer Ember Reichgott Junge shares highlights from her book chronicling Minnesota’s experience with charter legislation 20 years ago.
Plus Stanford economist John Taylor explains how a return to “first principles” would help boost the American economic recovery.