Jeanette Doran of the NC Institute for Constitutional Law recently published a must-read article comparing teacher tenure with the “at will” employment status of most workers in the private sector. …
View in your browser. Welcome In a new report, a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) task force argues that America’s substandard public school system poses a threat to national security. …
View in your browser. Welcome Earlier this month, the NC Department of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education presented their supplemental budget requests for 2012-2013. In this week’s…
Once again, I did not hear about this until too late, but it sounded good: The NC Institute for Constitutional Law wants you to know . . . On June…
Even as we speak, a crowd of conservatives are smoking cigars at the Grove Park Inn. It’s all part of the 17th Annual Meeting of the State Policy Network. Quite…
JLF Policy Analyst Terry Stoops visited Asheville to discuss trends in North Carolina K-12 education. In short, more money is going to pay more bureaucrats, and kids aren’t getting smarter…
Dean Webster at the NC Institute for Constitutional Law sent me an email with this guess. “Winston Churchill, 1925” Good guess. The quote has Winston’s eloquence and the year would…
It’s taking off and ready to soar. Join us with a post on your blog or by emailing me with your title and organization name. On board already, at least…
The General Assembly is preparing to head back to Raleigh to override their first veto in state history. They?re not doing it for the citizens, not for education, not for…
At a well-attended candidates forum, Daren Bakst spoke to the audience on Kelo and eminent domain. He provided background on the case and explained why NC law doesn’t protect us…
Following a Heritage Foundation press conference on incentives featuring the NC Institute for Constitutional Law’s Bob Orr and the Center for Local Innovation’s Chad Adams late last month, the Financial…
Following the Supreme Court ruling in Kelo, a has roared across the nation. Groups, both large and small, have come out in defense of property rights. At JLF, legal and…