In a recent column in the News & Observer Keith Poston, President and Executive Director of the Public-School Forum, notes that budget problems in K-12 schools are happening at a time when more and... Read More
Last week, the General Assembly announced which legislators will serve on the Joint Legislative Task Force on Education Finance Reform. The Task Force, created via the 2017 budget bill, is charged... Read More
The 2011 state legislative maps – which have been used in three separate election cycles and six statewide elections – are among the largest racial gerrymanders ever encountered by a federal court... Read More
Editorial by News and Observer, reprinted in The Burlington Times-News, September 21, 2017. Now 15 members of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors have criticized in a letter UNC system... Read More
The House redistricting committee held its second meeting on Tuesday to look at undertaking the first state judicial district overhaul in recent years. Comments were heard from those currently in the... Read More
While the nation focuses on Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Harvey, North Carolina still doesn’t have the money it needs to rebuild from Hurricane Matthew. Yes, it’s been nearly a year since... Read More
Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, September 13, 2017. We’re not about to argue that a thorough updating of our state’s judicial districts is unnecessary. The last large-scale redrawing of the... Read More
Editorial by Winston-Salem Journal, September 15, 2017. Politics is politics, but the budget cuts made by the Republican-led state legislature to Democratic-run state offices is not good government... Read More
It’s impossible to ignore the impact that the faith community is having on hurricane recovery efforts since Harvey struck Texas and Irma devastated Florida and much of the southeast. In fact, even... Read More
It will be at least another month before state Superintendent Mark Johnson can take over at the helm of the Department of Public Instruction, which leaves the Board of Education in charge of the state... Read More
