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"Every day, millions of American taxpayer dollars are spent on costs directly associated with illegal immigration."
Published: Thursday, November 23rd, 2023 @ 3:01 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Last week, the State Board of Education approved a resolution to move ahead with a framework to create a new way to license and pay teachers. Currently teachers are paid based on their years of experience.
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2022 @ 12:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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More than three quarters of students at one Baltimore high school are reading at an elementary level, with many reading at a kindergarten level.
Published: Tuesday, March 1st, 2022 @ 10:01 am
By: Daily Wire
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One year ago, with the country at a crossroads, President Biden unveiled his Build Back Better Agenda.
Published: Monday, November 8th, 2021 @ 11:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Ross Marchand writes for the Martin Center about the new president’s approach to higher education policy.
Published: Sunday, January 24th, 2021 @ 12:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed.
Published: Monday, September 14th, 2020 @ 3:48 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Four COVID-19 outbreaks reported last week at UNC Chapel Hill won’t shut down the flagship university campus. Yet.
Published: Wednesday, August 19th, 2020 @ 10:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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We have said this decade will be called the “Transformative Twenties,” so let’s explore some of those changes.
Published: Friday, January 17th, 2020 @ 2:58 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The 2019-20 General Assembly session is well under way. Bills are being filed and committees are meeting, but the attention will soon fall on the biennial budget, which the governor introduced this week and included new and expanded spending, including a 9.1 percent raise for teachers
Published: Saturday, March 9th, 2019 @ 10:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you ask the average person about private schools, most will say they are expensive and cost more to attend than traditional public schools
Published: Saturday, September 29th, 2018 @ 9:09 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Since 2010, when voters put Republicans in charge of most state governments across the United States, North Carolina became one of about a half-dozen states where conservative reformers have frequently - and sometimes spectacularly - faced off with progressives in ways that have attracted significan
Published: Wednesday, April 11th, 2018 @ 12:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Home renovations can improve our lives. But most of us would see a problem if we woke up one morning and noticed that our homes had 12 bedrooms and one bathroom, with a kitchen in the back yard and a toilet in the living room
Published: Tuesday, November 28th, 2017 @ 3:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The results are in. More North Carolina students are taking and passing college level advanced placement courses, and students are scoring higher than the national average on the revised SAT exam
Published: Sunday, October 1st, 2017 @ 9:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recently, a legislative proposal aimed at improving graduation rates at the University of North Carolina system's 16 institutions was nixed due to vehement opposition from university leaders
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2016 @ 10:51 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Home, Private Schools Saved Taxpayers Between $1.35 and $1.58 Billion
Published: Thursday, September 8th, 2016 @ 3:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A federal bill that would require colleges and universities to provide applicants information about the costs and returns of higher education was approved on Monday by the U.S. House of Representatives.
Published: Monday, August 29th, 2016 @ 4:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Could it be that Higher Education's big problem is the use of the word "Higher".
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 2:38 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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What Parents, Students And Higher Ed Leaders Are Saying
Published: Monday, July 18th, 2016 @ 5:38 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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A new event at East Carolina University's Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium is aimed at supporting programs and scholarships for student veterans.
Published: Wednesday, May 11th, 2016 @ 3:48 am
By: ECU News Services
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Politicians around the nation like to say that they have held down tuition at their state universities. Michigan's are no different, and to validate their claim, in 2011 they added incentive-based funding to university appropriations.
Published: Tuesday, March 1st, 2016 @ 3:00 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee recently, I was asked by Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) if, with respect to higher education, I would favor eliminating the U.S. Department of Education.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 3:40 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The so-called millennial generation helped to elect Barack Obama in 2008. But their turnout faded in 2012 because their expectations for instant gratification were not met, and they hold a jaded view that their votes don't matter, a South Carolina pollster told a Raleigh audience
Published: Friday, October 23rd, 2015 @ 9:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Most of the 1,429 unaccompanied minors relocated to North Carolina after they entered the United States illegally were released to host families in Mecklenburg, Durham, and Wake counties, raising health and safety concerns, as well as concerns about increased education costs to local governments.
Published: Friday, September 5th, 2014 @ 5:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A number of years ago, our Legislature had a new idea: Let's follow many other states and keep NC Education strong by putting in a Lottery to raise money.
Published: Sunday, March 9th, 2014 @ 1:08 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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