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Education and health care are among the top campaign issues in House District 8, where Republican incumbent Susan Martin is seeking a second term against Democratic challenger Barbara D "Bobi" Gregory.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 7:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Kay Hagan's campaign and its trolls are all over social media trumpeting a report published in the Greensboro News & Record that says North Carolina "ranks as worst state for teachers."
Published: Friday, October 3rd, 2014 @ 1:42 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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"I always want my students to start with facts, and the fact is Thom Tillis is terrible for education in North Carolina."
Published: Thursday, September 11th, 2014 @ 8:46 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Imagine talking with a friend who tells you that he's been forced to support the Duke basketball team for the past five years, even though he doesn't like the Blue Devils.
Published: Sunday, August 31st, 2014 @ 10:00 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Pat Hensley bristles at being called a politician, and until her June retirement she held a supposedly nonpartisan position as Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources for Catawba County Schools.
Published: Tuesday, August 26th, 2014 @ 10:13 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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As part of a campaign to inform employees and union workers of their rights, the Civitas Institute will be educating North Carolina teachers and other school employees about how they can give themselves an average $450 a year pay increase by leaving the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE)
Published: Saturday, August 9th, 2014 @ 1:26 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Are teachers receiving a pay increase?
Published: Wednesday, August 6th, 2014 @ 8:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) holds its "School's Out" rally, the Civitas Institute puts the spotlight on the gulf between teacher's salaries and NCAE executives' salaries.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 9:06 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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I was having a decent morning yesterday until I saw the latest television ad by Senate Majority PAC, the same outfit that disseminated ridiculous claims about North Carolina's tax reforms.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014 @ 12:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In February, I published a column titled, "Data Do Not Reflect Claims of Teacher Dissatisfaction," which pointed out that state and national data disagree with those who claim that the teaching profession is increasingly constrained and unhappy.
Published: Tuesday, June 17th, 2014 @ 6:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you like your teacher tenure plan, you can keep your teacher tenure plan, Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, told educators at a Wednesday press conference. Just don't expect a pay raise.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 6:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For years teachers have felt frustrated because they believe they are underpaid for a mentally and physically demanding job.
Published: Tuesday, May 27th, 2014 @ 12:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Liberal activists may fume, and left-wing editorialists may grind their teeth, but legislative leaders are going to defend energetically their 2013 opportunity scholarship bill against lawsuits by the teacher union and other special interests.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 12:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Republican primary for House District 94, which includes all of Alleghany County and most of Wilkes County, features two candidates with political experience and who should be familiar to Wilkes Countians.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 11:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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 compensation. That's because the lawmakers who enacted them are familiar with the empirical research about what
Published: Monday, April 7th, 2014 @ 8:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Teachers finding their schedules packed with testing would get relief from education reforms promised by Gov. Pat McCrory and top Republican lawmakers, who say students would benefit from a streamlined list of required state and local exams.
Published: Tuesday, March 18th, 2014 @ 4:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Why does the Left oppose school choice? It can't be because they oppose tax dollars going to private, even faith-based institutions. For decades, state and federal subsidies have flowed to private colleges and universities, including sectarian institutions. For decades, Medicare and Medicaid...
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 1:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Early career teachers will get pay raises starting in the fiscal year beginning July 1, and teachers with up to seven years of service will collect double-digit percentage increases, Gov. Pat McCrory announced Monday. The package is expected to cost less than $200 million and will not require a...
Published: Sunday, February 16th, 2014 @ 5:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In laying out its legal case against the state over elimination of teacher tenure, the North Carolina Association of Educators cites some of the same constitutional constructs of contract law that state employees used two decades ago to overturn the General Assembly's repeal of income tax exemptions
Published: Saturday, February 15th, 2014 @ 12:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While the teachers lobby claims conservative North Carolina lawmakers are waging a "full frontal assault" on educators by eliminating career status protections to weed out ineffective teachers, some education and legal experts say the state's action is aligned with a national trend to ensure childre
Published: Sunday, February 9th, 2014 @ 1:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Liberal activist organizations are challenging two new laws. In North Carolina Association of Educators, et al, v. The State of North Carolina, the state's teachers union challenged recent changes to North Carolina's tenure (aka "career status") law.
Published: Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 @ 1:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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He is unable to walk like kids his age, but my niece's son gave his family the best gift ever when he pulled himself up and balanced against a fence while playing in the Arizona sunshine.
Published: Thursday, December 26th, 2013 @ 1:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Different families have different traditions. Some go caroling. Some go on trips. Hoods would rather buy Park Place, conquer Middle Earth, or wipe out zombie infestations
Published: Sunday, December 22nd, 2013 @ 8:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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More teachers are moving to other public schools in the North Carolina system than in the past, and that is the No. 1 reason cited for teacher turnover in 2012-13, according to a state Department of Public Instruction report prepared for the State Board of Education that will be submitted to the...
Published: Tuesday, November 5th, 2013 @ 11:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state's largest teachers group - the N.C. Association of Educators - is saying that it is not connected to a proposed Nov.
Published: Friday, November 1st, 2013 @ 6:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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News outlets and the blogosphere have been filled with stories and opinions concerning the so-called "Walk In" being staged Monday in support of teachers and our schools.
Published: Thursday, October 31st, 2013 @ 11:20 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Last week, this column broke the fact that North Carolina ranks at the top (number 11) in state-level spending on education. Although the Tar Heel State ranks 45th on overall spending on education, it has nothing to do with any policy promulgated by the General Assembly.
Published: Sunday, August 25th, 2013 @ 5:47 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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In an appearance Wednesday on News 14 Carolina's "Capital Tonight," North Carolina Association of Educators lobbyist Brian Lewis argued that salaries for entry-level teachers in the state were inadequate. At $30,800, newly hired teachers in North Carolina are paid less than fast-food managers...
Published: Tuesday, August 20th, 2013 @ 8:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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School choice advocates won several high-profile battles this year over bills to expand and strengthen the charter school movement and to award private school vouchers to students struggling in public schools.
Published: Friday, August 16th, 2013 @ 9:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I got my first lesson in competition when I was a 12-year-old first baseman on a softball team. For years I'd been the only girl able to snag wild throws...
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2013 @ 1:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In recent months, state education officials and public school advocacy groups have continued to demand that state legislators pony up...
Published: Saturday, June 8th, 2013 @ 9:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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House Speaker Pro Tem Paul "Skip" Stam proposes to spend $90 million the next two years providing "equal opportunity scholarship grants" to low-income students...
Published: Sunday, April 14th, 2013 @ 9:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A merit pay system for teachers, changes to teacher tenure, tax credits for private school tuition, and new charter school initiatives are among education reform measures that could be passed in the state House of Representatives in the next few weeks, House Speaker Thom Tillis, R-Mecklenburg...
Published: Tuesday, February 26th, 2013 @ 2:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Virtual charter schools and other distance-learning options would be unshackled from the legal-political bind in which they remain idled if Lt. Gov.-elect Dan Forest has his way.
Published: Thursday, December 27th, 2012 @ 9:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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