When Bernie Sanders proposed free tuition at public colleges and universities, Hillary Clinton responded with her rival plan, The New College Compact
Published: Thursday, June 23rd, 2016 @ 1:50 am
By: John William Pope Center
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As the North Carolina Democrat Party (NCDP) stages its state convention, the North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) is encouraging the media and voters to ask Roy Cooper and Deborah Ross the following questions
Published: Tuesday, June 14th, 2016 @ 3:03 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Lawmakers returned to Raleigh at the end of April to attend this year's "short session." On the agenda are adjustments to the state budget and a few policies left unresolved when legislators adjourned last year
Published: Saturday, May 14th, 2016 @ 3:25 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Today success requires possessing a skill set that is in demand.
Published: Saturday, August 15th, 2015 @ 2:55 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Higher education is often an ignored issue in presidential campaigns. The 2016 campaign, however, may be different.
Published: Tuesday, August 11th, 2015 @ 12:52 am
By: John William Pope Center
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You’ve heard the spin the media, the progressives and the professors have put on the closing of the UNC Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, but let’s step back and look at what this is and isn’t about.
Published: Sunday, March 1st, 2015 @ 10:04 am
By: Tom Campbell
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BarryO has decided he wants to give everybody a free ride through community college. Heck. His radical overhaul of healthcare has worked *so well.* Why not meddle here?
Published: Saturday, January 31st, 2015 @ 2:39 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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President Obama is proposing that two years of community college education be provided by federal and state governments free to students who are enrolled at least half time and maintain a 2.5 GPA.
Published: Sunday, January 25th, 2015 @ 6:28 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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When my grandfather was president of Campbell College I remember his stories of students who paid tuitions with hams, cabbages or produce from their family's farm.
Published: Saturday, December 13th, 2014 @ 12:55 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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North Carolina’s state budget tug-of-war concluded August 1 when the General Assembly passed a $21 billion appropriations bill for fiscal year 2014-15.
Published: Saturday, August 9th, 2014 @ 1:20 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The North Carolina House released its budget plan for FY 2014-15, which would spend $21.09 billion. The total would be a 2.3 percent increase over the current fiscal year’s budget.
Published: Saturday, June 21st, 2014 @ 8:29 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A grant of nearly $500,000 will help East Carolina University recruit and teach school librarians from economically disadvantaged and historically underrepresented backgrounds who want to live and work in eastern North Carolina.
Published: Monday, April 7th, 2014 @ 3:55 pm
By: ECU News Services
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As tuition costs climb, student loan debts accumulate, and recent graduates struggle to find jobs, more people are questioning whether the American system of higher education is working as well as it could. Kenneth Starr, president of Baylor University and well-known independent counsel for...
Published: Sunday, December 15th, 2013 @ 9:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In part I of this two-part series on the shape and direction of education reform in North Carolina, we looked behind the education budget numbers. Now in Part II we discuss this year's legislative steps to address concerns about student achievement, teacher salaries and school vouchers.
Published: Thursday, October 17th, 2013 @ 11:04 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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State Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson said her concerns about allowing students to use vouchers to offset the cost of private schooling was more a principled support of public schools' role in modern society than the effect vouchers could have in meeting individual children's...
Published: Tuesday, August 13th, 2013 @ 10:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Not true - that's my response to the oped by Yevonne Brannon and Nick Rhodes in last week's News & Observer about school vouchers and their supposed harmful impacts on students and schools.
Published: Monday, April 29th, 2013 @ 6:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It's absolutely refreshing to hear an elected official championing the supremacy of the free market over the iron-fist of the bureaucracy.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 4:05 am
By: Brant Clifton
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For decades, rising college tuition rates have been almost as reliable a feature of American life as death and taxes. A substantial part of the increase has underwritten student aid, often in the form of merit scholarships.
Published: Thursday, December 20th, 2012 @ 3:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The wild swings in North Carolina's higher education budget may have come to a halt. Last year, the University of North Carolina system absorbed roughly $400 million in cuts -- a few years before that, higher ed was getting annual increases of 5 percent and more.
Published: Monday, August 13th, 2012 @ 12:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Illegal immigrants should not receive government funding when America is already in a financial crisis.
Published: Wednesday, April 27th, 2011 @ 5:38 pm
By: Leslie Schneider
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