During this National School Choice Week, the John Locke Foundation hosted a panel discussion featuring choice advocates representing district, charter, private, virtual, and home schools. Time Warner Cable news covered the event, interviewing Director of Research and Education Studies Terry Stoops and the panel’s host, Director of Education Outreach Lindalyn Kakadelis. The EdNC.org website also promoted a video of the discussion. Stoops also served as a panelist for an Americans for Prosperity event promoting National School Choice Week, and he discussed the week’s events with Lockwood Phillips on WTKF’s “Viewpoints Radio.”
Sticking with education-related news, WRAL Television interviewed Stoops for a story about new report cards grading North Carolina schools. The Yadkin Ripple published his column setting out an education agenda for 2015. The Salisbury Post excerpted that same column. A Wake Forest Weekly column cited Stoops’ work on community college remediation rates. (Terry Stoops of the John Locke Foundation reported in October 2013 that 63 percent of students who enrolled in North Carolina Community Colleges needed remediation work in math or reading.)
Chapel Hill’s Daily Tar Heel sought Stoops’ analysis of Superior Court Judge Howard Manning’s latest hearing on state education issues. The N.C. Spin website publicized his column on a new ranking of schools across North Carolina. EdNC.org recently interviewed Stoops about the N.C. General Assembly‘s return to action for 2015. Kakadelis participates this weekend in a panel discussion at N.C. Central University on the “school-to-prison pipeline.”
NCPoliticalNews.com promoted Stoops’ research newsletter on discarded school observances, along with Director of Fiscal Policy Studies Sarah Curry‘s columns on improving the state budget process and the impact of North Carolina’s balanced budget requirement, and Health and Human Services Policy Analyst Katherine Restrepo‘s newsletter distinguishing Medicaid reform from Medicaid expansion. Curry released a new report explaining why N.C. legislators made the right decision to allow state historic preservation tax credits to sunset.
Restrepo analyzed Medicaid reform and expansion for Bill LuMaye on WPTF Radio. She delivered a presentation on “Understanding the Affordable Care Act” for an actuarial student group at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Restrepo has joined the Health Care Reform Advisory Council for the Our America Initiative. The Kernersville News published her column on Obamacare returning to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A Wilmington Star-News editorial cited Director of Regulatory Studies Jon Sanders‘ recent column on the likelihood that North Carolina’s film industry will survive the end of targeted tax incentives. A Fayetteville Observer editorial gave Sanders credit for helping to end North Carolina’s film incentives program. The Kernersville News published the film-industry survival column, along with Vice President for Research and Resident Scholar Roy Cordato‘s column on the economic impact of lower gas prices. The N.C. Spin website promoted Research Publications Coordinator Julie Gilstrap‘s “Locker Room” blog entry critiquing state alcohol-sales restrictions.
