A new report from the John Locke Foundation explains how state and local policymakers in North Carolina can effectively implement open enrollment, a type of school choice that expands access…
North Carolina remains one of the worst states in the country when it comes to promoting choice among traditional public schools (i.e., not counting charter schools), according to a 2025…
The growth of OSP highlights the inequities and inefficiencies in how North Carolina funds public schools. Any real solution will have to remedy those problems. A new report from the State Board of…
Editors at National Review Online criticize the latest bad idea from a major left-coast city. You can push even parents in San Francisco too far. A proposal to experiment with…
Teacher Mike Dowd writes for the New York Post about the decay of public education in the nation’s largest city. Officials love to brag about the 84% graduation rate for…
Introduction The North Carolina State Constitution requires the General Assembly to provide “for a general and uniform system of free public schools.” That same document recognizes that “the people have…
Conservatives don’t often look to California as a model for sound education policy. Nevertheless, there are lessons that North Carolina can — and should — learn from the school finance…
Note: This article originally appeared in National Review on August 19, 2024. It is reprinted with minor modification. Christine Fairbanks is an education-policy fellow at the Sutherland Institute. Robert Luebke is the…
Editors at National Review Online take aim at the president’s Title IX changes. In a sweeping new Title IX rule, the Biden administration has usurped Congress to undermine free speech,…
Inter- and intra-district open-enrollment policies let parents choose a traditional public school other than the one to which their child has been assigned. Unlike most other states, North Carolina has…
Editors at the Washington Examiner wonder whether the Democratic Party will follow through on its touted goal of equity. The Democratic Party claims to champion diversity and equity, especially for…
Charles Lipson writes for Real Clear Politics about a disturbing trend within American medical schools. America’s top medical schools, worried they have too few minority students, are doing something about…