Expand Community Colleges
Editorial by Greenville Daily Reflector, March 8, 2014. There are signs that market forces are responding to the increasingly difficult financial burden that higher education places upon families of... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Doors could close at historic Dem headquarters
by Laura Leslie, WRAL, March 9, 2014. State Democratic Party leaders attending a meeting in Greensboro on Sunday were told the party might move out of its iconic Raleigh headquarters, the Goodwin... Read More
Another rigged election
The latest Elon University Poll finds that just 28 percent of North Carolinians approve of the job the General Assembly is doing. You might think that would worry Republican legislative leaders who... Read More
Lowering test bar was necessary for now
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, March 9, 2014. With one vote Thursday, the N.C. Board of Education ensured that thousands of third-graders can advance without having to attend summer reading camps... Read More
People say education deserves better
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, March 9, 2014. N.C. lawmakers haven’t listened much to educators as they’ve crafted poorly thought out changes affecting public schools and teachers. Maybe they... Read More
Pockets of poverty
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, March 4, 2014. North Carolina’s metro mayors heard a sobering report when they met in Charlotte last week. Poverty is a bigger problem for them than it is for... Read More
Same whine, different squabbles
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again,” wrote the author of the Book of Ecclesiastes. “There is nothing new under the sun.” More than two millennia later, Karl Marx... Read More
Seeking new direction, NC Democratic Party in turmoil again
Out of power and embroiled in turmoil once again, the state Democratic Party is seeking to fill a leadership void this weekend as it struggles to remain influential in a key election year. The party... Read More
How are North Carolina students? About average
Fair warning: I may be about to bore you to distraction.Is there any more potent political issue in North Carolina than education? Probably not. As allies of the teachers union, Democrats hope to ride... Read More
UNC funding request
Back in 2000 or 2001, a state legislator named Art Pope was waiving around a list in a House committee meeting, demanding that the Democrats in charge take note. The list contained expenses paid by... Read More
