Baker Mitchell, founder of The Roger Bacon Academy, pens a powerful defense of school choice in the face of attacks by Democratic candidate for superintendent of public instruction Jen Mangrum:…
In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, Baker Mitchell, founder of the North Carolina-based Roger Bacon Academy charter schools, confronts charges that North Carolina charters are producing resegregation. …
The John W. Pope Foundation has released a new profile of Baker Mitchell, the education entrepreneur and school choice advocate who also serves on the John Locke Foundation’s board of…
The proponents of the education status quo are again decrying the fact that parents are demanding choices about where to send their children to school, and that legislators are responding.…
In a News & Observer op-ed titled “The hijaking of charter schools,” Edward B. Fisk complains, As a longtime supporter of charter schools, I am distressed to watch Republican legislators attempting to…
The Greensboro News & Record‘s “Off The Record” blog cited John Hood’s column this week on the N.C. History Project and its most popular entries, including an item on the…
Here are some photos of the NCCCC at Wilmington Christian Academy from Friday evening and Saturday morning: From Untitled Album The NCGOP Chair panel From Untitled Album John Hood, JLF…
I’m blogging live from the North Carolina Coastal Conservative Conference, which is being held today and tomorrow at Grace Baptist Church’s Wilmington Christian Academy on College Road. The attendance at…
Good news in the JLF family this week. Charter Day School-Roger Bacon Academy, founded by JLF board member Baker Mitchell, has been designated by the state as one of the…
In a sidebar to today’s article on the difficulties of being a commencement speaker, USA Today heavily whitewashed last year’s fiasco at N.C. State: Talk-show pioneer Phil Donahue was booed…