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At this week’s meeting of the North Carolina Board of Education, two new officers were unanimously elected—former Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board member Eric Davis was elected chairman while former Guilford County…
In honor of Sunshine Week, WRAL outlines a few of the problems that journalists face when they try to obtain minutes from closed sessions of school board and State Board…
In the 2015-17 state appropriations bill, the NC General Assembly directed state education officials to cut 5 percent ($2.5 million) from the NC Department of Public Instruction (DPI) budget over…
View in your browser. Welcome Statewide test scores and graduation rates for the 2013-14 school year were released yesterday. Did we receive good news, bad news, or a little of…
Earlier today, Governor McCrory held a press conference at the Executive Mansion to announce his support of a House proposal to raise teacher pay, a plan that appears to have…
View in your browser. Welcome Bills, bills every where, And so the Stoops did think; Bills, bills every where, May push a man to drink. (With apologies to Coleridge…) Bulletin…
View in your browser. Welcome Over the last two months, the NC Department of Public Instruction posted, pulled, changed, and reposted their annual teacher turnover report. What gives? Bulletin Board…
View in your browser. Welcome Yesterday (or 80 days into the current legislative session), Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson issued a public statement urging lawmakers to exempt public school…
Bill Harrison is out and Bill Cobey is in, I assume, as chairman of the State Board of Education (SBE). According to Speaker Thom Tillis, Governor McCrory would like the…
Click here to listen to 38:08 of a session from the John W. Pope Civitas Institute’s 2006 Conservative Leadership Conference. Former Helms staffers and colleagues John Dodd, Bill Cobey, Tom…
The Daily Reflector in Greenville prefers: ? Republican Governor: Richard Vinroot ? Republican Lt. Governor: Thomas Stith ? Republican Attorney General: Thom Goolsby ? Democratic Ag Commissioner: Britt Cobb ?…
A new poll for two North Carolina television stations, conducted by Survey USA, shows once again why it is a mistake to issue confident predictions about the state?s Republican nomination…