Teacher exodus
When hundreds of teachers leave in the middle of the school year – in one of the nation’s best places to live and one of its best school systems – we have a crisis. But Republicans are in... Read More
NC Spin Articles
Exodus of teachers and alarming sign
Editorial by Wilmington Star-News, April 18, 2014. "The General Assembly shall provide by taxation and otherwise for a general and uniform system of free public schools, which shall be maintained at... Read More
NC has second largest increase in employment in March
North Carolina showed the country's second-largest increase in employment in March, when 19,400 jobs were added and the jobless rate fell to 6.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said... Read More
Teachers and taxes
While Governor McCrory and his patrons at the John Locke Foundation were bragging about tax cuts on Tax Day, Republicans in the Legislative Building were digging an even deeper teacher-pay hole for... Read More
Game changer
Harry Reid’s new ad is hardball with a thud. Here’s Reid’s story in a nutshell: He says Thom Tillis shared an apartment with his Chief of Staff, who had an affair with a married lobbyist, and... Read More
Irony, hypocrisy and flawed methodology on Tax Day
The irony seemed to completely escape Governor Pat McCrory Wednesday as he took the podium at a Tax Day event to heap praise on last year’s tax package that gave huge breaks to millionaires and... Read More
Course correction
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, April 18, 2014. Who could have guessed that Pat McCrory might be the governor who gets coal ash ponds cleaned up? The former Duke Energy employee didn’t run on a... Read More
UNC's Nichol not the only professor fighting academic freedom battle
Gene Nichol, former dean of UNC’s law school and now a professor there, might have a valid complaint. An outspoken column last October led UNC’s administrators to rap his knuckles. They asked him... Read More
NC poor would be better served with more light, less heat from Nichol
by Michael Jacobs, Jacobs Capital and UNC Kenan-Flagler School of Business, published in News and Observer, April 17, 2014. It is widely known that Professor Gene Nichol, who runs the Center on... Read More
'Alarming increase' in teacher resignations
Teacher resignations have increased by an “alarming” 41 percent this school year, Wake County school leaders said Thursday, in a development they said makes it harder to keep high-quality... Read More
