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According to data released by the NC Department of Public Instruction today, the average per-pupil expenditures (PPE) for each district in 2019-20 were as follows: Year LEA LEA Name Total PPE…
The Alamance-Burlington Schools will conduct the first nine weeks of classes using remote learning only. So, why does the district want to hire in-school suspension staff? Can remote learning students…
You may remember from School House Rock that the way an idea becomes a law is it is introduced to the legislature as a bill and passed through the legislative…
Rules created by a state agency can carry the full force of law. But in our system of government, legislators are the ones who make law. How are agencies able…
*Updated with Sen Wells’ comments to the GSC. With everyone’s attention on COVID-19 for the last several weeks, you may have missed an important meeting of the General Statutes Commission. This is…
Last week, Gov. Roy Cooper pulled $50 million from reserve accounts and funds set aside for summer reading camps (which will not occur this summer for obvious reasons). Districts and…
With a competitive Democratic presidential primary and a Republican incumbent, eight counties saw an opportunity to get voter approval for a sales tax referendum. This was the first presidential primary…
Primary season is upon us, and, in North Carolina, primary season always comes with sales tax referenda. JLF has written about four counties with tax referenda on the ballot this…
After we posted a summary last week on sales tax referenda in four counties (Chatham, Forsyth, Madison, and Wayne), a citizen in Alamance County alerted us that a sales tax…
There are two fundamentally different conceptions of civil society. One sees people acting with their families and neighbors to help one another. Civil society is voluntary cooperation with regard to…
By a 4-1 margin, the Alamance County Board of Commissioners voted to put a quarter-cent sales tax hike on the March 2020 ballot. The rationale for putting the sales tax…
As the legislature hunkers down to re-draw some of the House and Senate districts to comply with the recent Common Cause three-judge decision which claimed “extreme” partisan gerrymandering, new maps…