Because teachers have the option of declining summer employment, summer learning programs designed to address learning loss may be short-staffed. Reasons for opting out of the summer learning programs vary,…
It is not difficult to understand why the editors of Business North Carolina and The Robesonian have asked the state to assist the Public Schools of Robeson County. The school…
From The Robesonian, Thursday, June 5, 1919 (page 3)
John Locke Foundation’s Becki Gray’s article on how North Carolina is a model for recovery featured in a column for The Robesonian. Becki writes: Recovery from Hurricane Florence will be…
Earlier this year, the N.C. State Board of Education and Superintendent of Public Instruction launched the Innovative School District (ISD), an entity created by the General Assembly in 2016 to coordinate…
A recent national report suggests North Carolina fails in its job of screening new public school teachers to ensure the bad apples aren’t placed in the state’s classrooms. John Locke…
Did you know that the renewable energy portfolio standards law was not passed as a jobs program? The renewable energy lobby would like you to think that’s what it’s for.…
The Greensboro News and Record published Becki Gray’s column urging state policymakers to scrap subsidies for the renewable energy industry. NCPoliticalNews.com picked up Gray’s column on state efforts to honor…
The Lumberton Robesonian, N.C. Spin website, NCPoliticalNews.com, and N.C. Senate Republicans all took note of Becki Gray’s Carolina Journal column focusing on the state’s Medicaid reform debate. The Laurinburg Exchange…
Carolina Journal reporting on the N.C. House’s proposed two-year budget plan attracted attention from the N.C. Spin website and Senate Republicans’ daily press email. The Lumberton Robesonian, NCPoliticalNews.com, and Senate…
Forbes readers had a chance to peruse two columns in the past week from John Locke Foundation Health and Human Services Policy Analyst Katherine Restrepo. One distinguished Medicaid reform from…
North Carolina’s certificate-of-need law benefits entrenched medical providers and blocks innovation that can lead to better service and lower costs. John Locke Foundation Health and Human Services Policy Analyst Katherine…