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NC’s latest school takeover experiment will deny Goldsboro students the education they deserve
by Kris Nordstrom
Friday, October 19, 2018

On Monday night of this week, acclaimed education researcher Richard Rothstein spoke to community members at Epworth United Methodist Church in Durham. Rothstein opened his talk with an uncontroversial, yet under-appreciated, fact: social and economic characteristics of children are the primary predictors of student achievement.

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News

Last chance for the red wolf? Advocates ask federal judge to intervene to preserve endangered species

10/18/2018

Chief US District Judge Terrence Boyle, a New Jersey-born jurist known for his bristly disposition and barbed wit, asked a simple but loaded question in a Raleigh courtroom yesterday: "Who's going to teach these wolves to swim?"

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State panel commences examination of NC’s cash bail system

State panel commences examination of NC’s cash bail system

10/18/2018

Battle looms as state officials propose takeover of Goldsboro elementary school

Battle looms as state officials propose takeover of Goldsboro elementary school

10/17/2018

Original Commentary

Lack of support for power-grabbing amendments speaks volumes

By Rob Schofield

10/16/2018

There are a lot of strange – even downright bizarre – aspects to the ongoing effort by North Carolina Republican legislators to pass a slate of six constitutional amendments during this fall’s election. There is, for instance, the absurd dearth of process...

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Proposed amendment requiring a voter ID is unnecessary and too costly

Proposed amendment requiring a voter ID is unnecessary and too costly

By Alexandra Forter Sirota

10/15/2018

Nix all Six

10/15/2018

Editorial Cartoon

Nix all Six

By John Cole

10/15/2018

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The newest MacArthur ‘Genius’

By John Cole

10/8/2018

“I like Burr…and Tillis too!”

By John Cole

10/1/2018

In search of a bright side…

By John Cole

9/24/2018

Video

NC State AFL-CIO President on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court

9/4/2018

Dr. Stephen Scott on Wake Tech’s November bond proposal

8/30/2018

Senator Burr on Russian interference, social media

8/1/2018

Rep. Darren Jackson on misleading nature of one of the constitutional amendments (HB913)

7/30/2018

Rep. Mickey Michaux talks race, civil rights as he retires after 4 decades in the General Assembly

6/30/2018

NC NAACP on the harms of requiring photo voter ID

6/25/2018

Events

Oct. 30 Crucial Conversation: Trick or treat? A 2018 election preview Featuring Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling

10/16/2018

October 4 Crucial Conversion – NC’s deadliest policy failure (and how Virginia solved the problem)

9/20/2018

Crucial Conversation – North Carolina’s constitutional amendments blitz: What should be done?

7/25/2018

May 15 | America’s most dangerous policy addiction (and the threat it poses to the common good)

5/4/2018

May 4 | A new day in the fight against gun violence?

4/20/2018

March 22 | Prof. Christopher Faricy discusses his book “Welfare for the Wealthy: Parties, Social Spending, and Inequality in the United States”

3/13/2018

Radio Commentaries & Interviews

Destructive changes to the Public Charge Rule need to be rejected

Rob Schofield 10/19/2018

A destructive policy choice: State cuts to higher education

Rob Schofield 10/18/2018

Taking a hard look in the mirror and finding a just recovery

Rob Schofield 10/17/2018

Victims’ right amendment comes up short

Rob Schofield 10/16/2018

Former State Superintendent of Public Instruction Mike Ward

Clayton Henkel 10/15/2018

GOP state senator opposes constitutional amendment that he voted to place on the ballot

Rob Schofield 10/15/2018

Sarah Gillooly with the American Civil Liberties Union

Clayton Henkel 10/15/2018

Secretary of State Elaine Marshall

Clayton Henkel 10/14/2018

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