Accountability in education
It’s not like it is difficult to find startling hypocrisy in what passes for public policy debates these days, but the battle over public education seems especially rife with maddening examples... Read More
NC Spin Articles
The Jury is still out on voter fraud claims
Editorial by News and Observer, April 3, 2014. North Carolina’s Republican legislative leaders want to call one election before all the votes are in. They say that state elections officials, having... Read More
Retired UNC professors urge faculty to confront academic scandal
More than 30 retired faculty are challenging their colleagues at UNC-Chapel Hill to seek answers from the administration about how a long-running academic fraud began and continued to run unchecked... Read More
Cannon is the pay-to-play exception in politics
by Tom Terrell, attorney, published in Charlotte Observer, April 4, 2014. Like all of us, I watched the news unfold last week to learn about allegations that another elected official – this time one... Read More
McCrory: Tills has the best chance of winning
Gov. Pat McCrory waded into North Carolina’s Republican Senate primary Thursday, saying Thom Tillis has the best shot to beat Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan in November. “I think Tillis has the best... Read More
Questions arise on NC public-private economic development partnership
by Craig Jarvis, News and Observer, April 3, 2014. State legislators on Thursday took their first look at the makings of a bill that would create North Carolina’s first public-private economic... Read More
Branding Tillis
It’s April, and the highest-profile primary contest of the year has turned predictably mean. When a race involves an obvious front-runner — in this case, state House Speaker Thom Tillis — and a... Read More
Don't backtrack on school reform
Liberal politicians, left-wing activists, and the teacher union* may not like it, but the North Carolina General Assembly is not about to abandon its reforms of teacher hiring, firing, and... Read More
The lunacy of demanding and rejecting federal funding
It has become a familiar story. North Carolina political leaders talking about the benefits to the state of receiving a massive infusion of federal dollars to expand a state program, the jobs it will... Read More
Fewer student dropouts, suspensions and crimes reported
Fewer North Carolina public school students are committing school crimes, getting suspensions, receiving corporal punishment and dropping out, according to new reports on 2012-13 school year data... Read More
