Education
Lessons from CIS evaluations
View in your browser. Welcome Communities in Schools (CIS) is a non-profit dropout prevention organization that has a significant presence in North Carolina and 24 other states. Last week, Economic…
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This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
Months before any voters cast real ballots in the 2012 presidential race, media outlets already have started pursuing their favorite story lines. Jon Ham discusses early media coverage of the…
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Re: Taxpayers pay for water park, movies, and fast food
The Housing Authority of Winston-Salem (HAWS) received a nearly $150,000 dropout prevention grant in 2007, presumably for their ?Summer Teaching Enrichment Program? (STEP) program. According to HAWS grant writers, The…
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Changes in House K-12 education budget
For background on the House budget, go here, here, and here. – I am feeling a bit uneasy about the elimination of high school Civics and Economics, Geometry, Physical Science,…
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This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
Some politicians seem to have no sense of the importance of keeping the government out of the private sector?s way. Michael Sanera discusses problems associated with government overreach during the…
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Dropout prevention grant report
Last month, the Joint Legislative Committee on Dropout Prevention and High School Graduation received a report on the 2007 and 2008 recipients of dropout prevention grants. The NC General Assembly…
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Hackney: We’re raising the sales tax. Get over it.
There is no other way to interpret House Speaker Joe Hackney’s comments about the 1-cent sales tax increase. Don’t forget that sales tax “revenue” will be used to fund his…
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Research about dropout grants has impact
The committee that oversees the state’s dropout prevention grant program will change the way they award and evaluate grantees. From the News & Observer, The dropout prevention committee, whose members…
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Re: Education budget unveiled
Are legislators serious about making strategic cuts to the education budget? Not even close. The fact that they will likely appropriate $12 million for dropout prevention grants says it all.
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It’s the school
Why do kids drop out of school? A new report, “Late High School Dropouts: Characteristics, Experiences, and Changes Across Cohorts,” published by the National Center for Education Statistics answers, “it’s…
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Today’s Carolina Journal Online features
Today’s Carolina Journal Online exclusive features Terry Stoops’ latest analysis of the state’s school dropout prevention grant initiative. John Hood’s Daily Journal analyzes the news that North Carolina groups spent…
Evidence shows little benefit from state dropout grants
RALEIGH — Only 14 of the 100 North Carolina schools served by state dropout prevention grant recipients saw substantial improvement in dropout and graduation rates from 2006-07 to 2007-08. Those…