Sixteen private schools in Durham and Cumberland counties want a three-judge panel to resolve their concerns about a recently dismissed lawsuit involving Opportunity Scholarships.
Published: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 1:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Sixteen private schools in Durham and Cumberland counties are seeking more than $25,000 from the plaintiffs and lawyers in a recently dismissed lawsuit targeting Opportunity Scholarships.
Published: Tuesday, June 13th, 2023 @ 8:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The head of the N.C. Association of Educators and fellow plaintiffs have dropped their lawsuit against North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship Program.
Published: Thursday, May 25th, 2023 @ 6:15 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A lawsuit challenging N.C. Opportunity Scholarships will head to a three-judge trial court panel. That move represents a legal win for the state, legislative leaders, and parents defending Opportunity Scholarships.
Published: Sunday, November 6th, 2022 @ 10:57 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The state's current system prioritizes years of service and credentialing for teachers in determining pay. Top education leaders say a new proposal would revamp that structure, putting more emphasis on performance and provide clear pathways for advancement.
Published: Sunday, August 7th, 2022 @ 9:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The social justice protest arm of the N.C. Association of Educators (NCAE), “Organize 2020,” recently sent out an email inviting those “committed to education justice” to join a new coalition aimed at fighting for topics that parents have pushed back on at recent school board meetings
Published: Thursday, July 7th, 2022 @ 11:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Maine’s ban on using state money to pay for scholarships at religious schools.
Published: Wednesday, July 6th, 2022 @ 7:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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New orders block all activity in a lawsuit challenging Opportunity Scholarships.
Published: Monday, May 9th, 2022 @ 11:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The legal fight over North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program focuses now on whether a single judge or a three-judge panel should hear the case. Lawyers for the state and the scholarships’ parent supporters have filed new briefs supporting the three-judge option.
Published: Saturday, April 2nd, 2022 @ 12:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Court of Appeals has agreed to block further pretrial discovery in a lawsuit challenging the state’s Opportunity Scholarship Program. The court granted a request from parents defending the school choice program.
Published: Saturday, March 26th, 2022 @ 1:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Two more documents filed late Friday with the N.C. Court of Appeals take aim at legal tactics employed by opponents of the Opportunity Scholarship Program. The filings also criticize the trial judge who has been overseeing a lawsuit challenging the program.
Published: Monday, March 21st, 2022 @ 11:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative defenders of North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program are asking the N.C. Court of Appeals to block “burdensome” trial court activity in a lawsuit challenging the program.
Published: Sunday, March 20th, 2022 @ 6:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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“’Learning loss’ is a false construct.”
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2022 @ 3:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The 2021 session of the General Assembly began in January, as the world was entering its second year of the pandemic. The hope was the COVID fog would lift, allowing a return to normalcy, at least in a relative sense, and that lawmakers could go about business as usual.
Published: Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 @ 3:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Published: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 @ 3:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Parents supporting North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program want a three-judge panel to review a lawsuit challenging the scholarships. A motion filed in the N.C. Court of Appeals this month seeks to have the case transferred away from a single trial judge.
Published: Saturday, December 18th, 2021 @ 2:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. House passed its district map proposal during evening sessions Tuesday, Nov. 2. The Senate is expected to vote on the N.C. House district map on Thursday. Redistricting maps do not go before Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, driving pressure on the legislative process by opposition groups.
Published: Thursday, November 25th, 2021 @ 1:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Of the 25 active members of Gov. Roy Cooper’s Teacher Advisory Committee, only one is a registered Republican, a review of voter registration records by Carolina Journal shows.
Published: Monday, November 22nd, 2021 @ 1:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s self-described teachers’ union still has clout with many Democratic lawmakers in the legislature, but its influence — and popularity — with teachers and everyday North Carolinians appears to be waning.
Published: Sunday, November 21st, 2021 @ 3:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Test results in reading, math, and science for the 2020-21 school year show the effects school closures and remote learning have had on public school students in North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, October 5th, 2021 @ 12:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Senate rolled out a budget proposal this week that would expand school choice across the state while raising teacher pay and seeking to remedy student learning losses due to closed classrooms because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Thursday, July 1st, 2021 @ 7:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Government Transparency Act of 2021 would require that personnel actions of government employees, like public school teachers or county health officials, be described and maintained in public record
Published: Sunday, June 20th, 2021 @ 11:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A bill that would open disciplinary records of government employees is crawling through the Senate, and employee unions and Democrats are determined to kill it.
Published: Tuesday, June 1st, 2021 @ 12:48 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Vote sets up a potential compromise version with the House
Published: Sunday, May 9th, 2021 @ 10:45 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Epidemiologists and infectious disease experts have consistently maintained that the risk of spread of the COVID-19 virus among young children is low.
Published: Monday, April 19th, 2021 @ 7:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A bill to expand the Opportunity Scholarship Program passed the N.C. House, 69-49, on Tuesday, April 13, following a floor debate that focused on accountability.
Published: Sunday, April 18th, 2021 @ 7:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. State Board of Education has voted unanimously to switch social-distancing requirements under a “Plan A” return to public school classrooms to 3 feet rather than the previous six feet.
Published: Tuesday, March 30th, 2021 @ 1:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In a rare instance of bipartisan agreement, Cooper joined with both Republican and Democratic leaders in the N.C. House and Senate at a news conference Wednesday, March 10, to unveil a new school reopening plan for the entire state.
Published: Sunday, March 14th, 2021 @ 2:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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As the N.C. State Board of Education votes Thursday, March 4, to reopen schools, a far-left teachers’ union is trying to deny that children are suffering from learning loss.
Published: Wednesday, March 10th, 2021 @ 7:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper’s 11th-hour veto of a school reopening bill Friday isn’t sitting well with nearly half of North Carolina likely voters, a Civitas Flash Poll shows.
Published: Thursday, March 4th, 2021 @ 4:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. General Assembly on Monday, March 1, tried but failed — by one vote, 29-20 — to override the governor’s veto of a bill to reopen schools.
Published: Thursday, March 4th, 2021 @ 8:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican leaders in the N.C. General Assembly say they will consider overriding the governor’s veto of Senate Bill 37, the school reopening bill, as soon as Monday, March 1.
Published: Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021 @ 8:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed bipartisan legislation to reopen N.C. public schools statewide.
Published: Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021 @ 1:46 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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