Should states spend billions to reduce class size? That’s the question Amelia Thomson DeVeaux of the popular data and statistics web site Five Thirty-Eight asks in an article of the same name... Read More
Editorial by News and Observer, January 8, 2015. Knowledgeable, respected and popular among Republican state lawmakers, Richard Stevens is a fine choice to lobby for the interests of Wake County in... Read More
The State Board of Education voted Thursday to switch all high school students to the new 10-point grading scale this fall, reversing its previous decision to phase in the change during the next three... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, January 7, 2015. Politicians imposed a 30-year time limit on sea-level forecasts for North Carolina’s coast, but the scientists made their point anyway. Sea... Read More
Critics of Republican leadership in the General Assembly are often quick to use words such as "extreme" to describe policies pushed by the majority. Republicans use the same rhetoric about Democrats... Read More
John Boehner, Jeb Bush and Pat McCrory took their first steps this week along a Republican Party fault line that offers peril for each of them – and peril for Democrats if they succeed. Boehner... Read More
In a realm filled with rumors in the blink of an eye fictions take root in fertile soil and blossom adopting the image of spoken truth like this one you’ve heard a hundred times: ‘Romney lost... Read More
The 2015 session of the General Assembly doesn’t officially convene until next Wednesday but Republican legislative leaders have already set a troubling tone for the session with their decision to... Read More
Editorial by Greenville Daily Reflector, January 7, 2015. As fuel prices are decreasing at a record rate, North Carolina’s gas tax actually climbed a penny on Jan. 1. Unfortunately, the new revenue... Read More
Projections about a mass teacher exodus in North Carolina sparked by Republican legislative policies not only have failed to materialize, but also turnover rates declined last year, according to an... Read More
