The Hendersonville Times-News cited John Locke Foundation Director of Research and Education Studies Terry Stoops in an article about a controversial, politically motivated fourth-grade school assignment. Stoops discussed the same topic with WLOS Television. He also discussed another controversy, the Common Core State Standards Initiative, during a forum for the Wake-Up Republican Women’s Club of Guilford County.

NCPoliticalNews.com has promoted several JLF research reports issued in the past week. Stoops questioned the content of state public school English tests based on Common Core standards. Sarah Curry offered a brief overview of the state Senate’s budget proposal and a more in-depth review of North Carolina’s excise taxes. Health and Human Services Policy Analyst Katherine Restrepo outlined the benefits associated with consumer-driven Medicaid reform.

The Daily Tar Heel interviewed Vice President for Research and Resident Scholar Roy Cordato about competing state House and Senate tax reform plans. The Fayetteville Observer‘s blog “The People’s Business” noted that the Fayetteville city manager recently cited data from Economics and Regulatory Policy Analyst Michael Lowrey‘s latest By The Numbers report ranking local governments by their tax-and-fee burdens.