North Carolina is clearing a path in the murky health care crisis that could spotlight the state as a model for the other 49. The struggles in health care will not be solved in Washington or by the... Read More
The legislature’s plan to give parents taxpayer money to send their children to private schools suffered a setback Friday when a Superior Court judge granted opponents’ request to suspend the... Read More
John Drescher down at the News and Observer hit the nail on the head last week when he wrote: ‘Steve Beam needs a boss.’ What’s happened to Mr. Beam (the Director of the Raleigh Housing... Read More
Governor McCrory was checking off his 2014 Reset List. Teacher pay plan: check. Televised command presence in snowstorm: check. National face time on Face the Nation: check. New communications... Read More
Editorial by Rocky Mount Telegram, February 21, 2014. North Carolina voters face plenty of important decisions at the polls this year, from county commissioners and sheriffs, to state legislators and... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, February 21, 2014. State Rep. Donny Lambeth is absolutely correct in his comment on the state’s chronic problem with processing food-stamp applications. “It is... Read More
Republicans on Capitol Hill are shifting their strategy to deal with the Affordable Care Act. Instead of calling for a dismantling of the health care law, U.S. Sen. Richard Burr and others have... Read More
by Gene Nichol, UNC professor of law, published in News and Observer, February 21, 2014. Last month, scholars at Harvard and Berkeley released a massive study of economic mobility in America’s... Read More
A new state computer system for keeping track of student information has so many problems that the accuracy of transcripts, athletic eligibility and the number of students enrolled in schools is... Read More
More than three-quarters of teachers in North Carolina and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools met state goals for student gains on test scores, though CMS fell slightly under the state average on new... Read More
