Does North Carolina need to raise its mandatory school attendance age to keep more kids in school? Terry Stoops says no. He’ll explain why during this weekend’s Carolina Journal Radio.

Joe Coletti applies his expertise to the state budget process. Joe will react to comments from Senate Minority Leader Phil Berger, who found some good and bad in the Senate Democrats’ budget plan. We’ll also hear from House Minority Leader Paul Stam, who urged his colleagues to support the Senate budget.

Roy Cordato will tell us why it’s hard to find a definition of price gouging in an economics textbook, and we’ll get a school choice update from Shaka Mitchell of the Institute for Justice.