Date of voucher payout to families moved ahead of critical court hearing that will decide if program is legal
Rep. Paul “Skip” Stam has long supported school vouchers and successfully co-sponsored legislation that would put 10 million taxpayer dollars into the ...
Plans to finance both public education and transit at the local level would be stopped in their tracks under the version of legislation (House Bill 1224) that emerged from the state Senate Finance Committee this past week. The bill not ...
(The items in this edition of Monday numbers are from the report “What’s the Harm? Plenty. Unemployment Insurance Changes Threaten the State’s Economy and Hurt the Unemployed” by the N.C. Budget & Tax Center, published in July of 2014)
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It’s about McCrory, not the poet
North Carolina’s embattled poet laureate resigned Thursday after a weeklong controversy about her qualifications and the procedure followed to make her appointment.
That’s not exactly an everyday occurrence in North Carolina, a dustup about the state’s ...
These are fascinating times in Raleigh for political junkies and folks in the public policy world, as House and Senate leaders of the same political party trade budget offers back and forth and Governor Pat McCrory weighs in with strong ...
House Speaker Thom Tillis and Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger may still be battling over budgets, but they’ve found plenty of common ground when it comes to protecting controversial laws they’ve shepherded through their chambers these past few years. ...
Senate leaders continue to propose cutting teacher assistants as a way to pay for a significant teacher salary bump, the first teachers have seen in years.
While the General Assembly debates back and forth over the impact teacher assistants have in ...
Editors’ note: While North Carolina budget negotiators appeared to make some headway late yesterday in bridging the gap between the House and Senate positions, final agreement on an FY2015 budget remains elusive more than two weeks into the new fiscal ...
One of the more hopeful signs in the troubling political debate in North Carolina these days comes not from the finger-pointing budget dispute in Raleigh but from Mount Airy of all places—at a meeting of the local Rotary club there ...
The war on the poor officially becomes a war on the middle class
There are a lot of competitors when it comes to listing and ranking the most hard-hearted and destructive acts of the last couple of North Carolina General Assemblies ...
