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On a recent episode of State Lines on PBS North Carolina, panelists debated the merits of North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship program, a popular school choice program that helps parents cover…
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, North Carolina has seen a massive influx of unemployment claims. That large influx has been exceptionally difficult to handle, but even before this…
The government response to the coronavirus pandemic has thrown millions of Americans out of work and has led to skyrocketing numbers of unemployment claims. North Carolina has seen over one…
• U.S. House Deputy Majority Whip Patrick McHenry, R-10th District, is chairman of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign in North Carolina. Joining McHenry on the Bush team…
Budgets lay out priorities. Votes on the budget reflect priorities of lawmakers. The governor had his with a 2.3% increase in spending. The House passed a budget last week that…
A press release went out yesterday about the House voting to bring back the historic preservation tax credit. Hopefully the Senate will see that this is bad policy and either…
As state lawmakers and the McCrory administration continue to debate the future of North Carolina’s Medicaid program, Katherine Restrepo offers suggestions about potential positive reforms. That’s a highlight of the…
As a Democrat, state Rep. Rick Glazier of Cumberland County will spend the next two years in the minority party in the N.C. House of Representatives. Glazier knows he and…
The N.C. Coalition for Lobbying and Government Reform is publicizing this morning a plea from two former members of the N.C. House of Representatives: Two former members of the North…
The Common Core debate is far from over. Thursday afternoon the House Education Committee took up Senate Bill 812, Maintain State Authority Over State Standards, aka the Common Core Bill.…
Parents want more control over the education of their children. And for those low-income families who believe the traditional public classroom has failed them, the state legislature passed the Opportunity…
School choice and vouchers are good ideas. There has been a lot of debate and it seems many of the misunderstandings are being cleared up. This morning, the House Education…