It’s a rite of every legislative session: the introduction of an ever-increasing number of bills calling for school calendar flexibility. The goal? Get out from under North Carolina’s rigid school…
The North Carolina Supreme Court has handed down a fascinating decision in a case of egregious bullying of autistic kids who attended a public school in Pitt County. On Friday,…
The lawsuit pits North Carolina’s superintendent of public instruction against the State Board of Education. John Locke Foundation Senior Vice President Becki Gray and Chairman John Hood answer host Tom Campbell’s…
Recent legal battles have created confusion about the future of Title IX, the federal law designed to prohibit sex-based discrimination in American education. Campbell University’s Title IX coordinator tried to…
My latest court story for Carolina Journal: RALEIGH — In an April decision, the N.C. Court of Appeals overturned a jury ruling that Union County public schools had not been…
A panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 this morning that a Superior Court judge must reassess his 2013 decision to award $57,000 in funding and $47,000 in…
Carolina Journal’s Dan Way delves into legal claims by the Big Education status quo that career status as a teacher in North Carolina qualifies as a property right. In a…
Winston-Salem-Forsyth County Schools Superintendent Don Martin reassures ‘confused’ principals and teachers that the system will not become the state’s first charter school district anytime soon, even in light of state…
Rutherford County Schools may have to pay charter school students more. The question is whether funds for special programs should apply to the charter school allotment. The Rutherford County Superior…
In other appellate rulings this morning: A panel split 2-1 in a pair of cases involving students kicked out of a Beaufort County high school for fighting. Both had sued…
A bill introduced by state Sen. Jim Jacumin (R-44) — with bipartisan co-sponsorship of 40% of the Senate — would open public school athletic programs to students at any school,…
A Zimbabwean may have the solution.