North Carolina state government’s new budget year starts one week from today. Joseph Coletti analyzes the new budget for the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.

Terry Stoops will discuss the confusion surrounding new state public school graduation rate figures that seem to contradict earlier data, and you’ll hear debate about a proposal that would require schools to tally the immigration status of incoming students.

You’ll learn about a plan to mandate driver’s education for every new North Carolina driver, and Case Western Reserve University law professor Jonathan Adler will discuss how free markets work better than regulation to protect the environment.