A recently released Public School Forum (PSF) report on school finance warns that migrating from North Carolina’s present resource allocation system to a system of Weighted Student Funding — without…
Public schools are accountable. It’s a claim often repeated by lawmakers, teachers, administrators, and education activists. But are they? What does it mean to be accountable? Despite an apparatus of…
We hear a lot about how much states are spending on education. Not so much about how much we’re get for that spending. Until now. Edunomics Lab, a university-based research…
Introduction Charter schools came to North Carolina in 1995 with passage of House Bill 955. Charter schools are public schools that operate independently of existing schools and are given additional…
Refusing to look inward, opponents of school choice insist the only thing needed to improve public schools is more money. Over the past several decades, however, public schools have received…
The Left continues to hyperventilate over North Carolina’s proposed Parents’ Bill of Rights, SB 49. In yesterday’s Raleigh News and Observer, Sara Pequeno joined in the fray when she opined…
How do voucher programs impact district achievement, segregation, or district per pupil expenditures? These are questions that have dogged voucher programs for a long, long time. Yesterday the Thomas B.…
The North Carolina Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the Leandro case on August 31. Chants of “cut the check” and “let the money go” during Every Child NC’s…
Today Judge Michael Robinson held his first substantive hearing as the presiding judge in the long-running Leandro school funding case. Robinson has a steep learning curve. The North Carolina Supreme…
During his oversight of the Leandro case, Judge David Lee failed to scrutinize the comprehensive remedial plan that bears his signature. The remedial plan formulated by California-based consultant WestEd would necessitate billions…
Superior Court Judge W. David Lee violated the separation of powers by ordering state finance officials to transfer $1.7 billion in taxpayer money from the General Fund without the requisite…
Judge David Lee recently and unexpectedly declared that the General Assembly is an unnamed defendant in the long-running Leandro case. The General Assembly has never been a party to the…