When the News & Observer reported this week that the Wake County school system might return to the controversial practice of using school lunch data to guide school assignment decisions, the newspaper turned to John Locke Foundation Director of Research and Education Studies Terry Stoops for an opposing view. The N&O‘s “WakeEd” blog also quoted Stoops in an entry focusing on Wake’s new school superintendent.
Stoops discussed state superintendent June Atkinson’s critical comments about the state education budget during an appearance on WPTF Radio. N.C. Senate Republicans promoted Stoops’ column on ensuring parental accountability in public education, while the Elkin Tribune published his column on the budgetary impact of North Carolina’s “Medicaid monster.”
Speaking of Medicaid, the Daily Tar Heel in Chapel Hill interviewed Health and Human Services Policy Analyst Katherine Restrepo about the joint federal-state health program. Meanwhile, NCPoliticalNews.com promoted Director of Fiscal Policy Studies Sarah Curry‘s latest research newsletter on state budget negotiations. N.C. Senate Republicans also promoted a column on the budget continuing resolution. The Heritage Foundation’s “Insider Online” highlighted Curry’s report on a “reverse logrolling” approach to the final state budget deal.
Director of Regulatory Studies Jon Sanders analyzed the dubious economic impact of a new Holly Springs baseball stadium for the Triangle Business Journal. Vice President for Research and Resident Scholar Roy Cordato headed to Seattle this week to speak at a Foundation for Economic Education seminar on free-market environmentalism. Cordato’s lectures covered pollution taxes and cap-and-trade plans, sustainability and North Carolina’s renewable-energy mandate, and the Austrian economic school’s approach to environmental economics.
