Connecting Working Families to Economic Opportunity Now
The current recession has pushed more than half a million members of the state’s labor force out of work and paralyzed the expansion of business and growth in job opportunities.
Chancellor Randy Woodson may be new in his position, but he knows his primary duty is ensuring NCSU students receive a world-class education for their tuition dollars. Dr. Woodson says it will be increasingly difficult to fulfill that mission if the General Assembly approves further cuts to the N.C. State’s budget. The full interview airs [Continue Reading...]
No big surprises in spending but some major policy shifts proposed
Earlier this week, the NC Budget & Tax Center (BTC) released its report on the Senate’s budget. The following are some highlights from the BTC report, which pays close attention to the budget’s potential impacts on low-and moderate-income North Carolinians.
Missing evidence from the charter school debate
Here are a couple of things the Republicans didn’t mention this week in their tirades about the way North Carolina treats charter schools and in their claims that the state’s cap of 100 charters is the reason that North Carolina was not awarded any money by the federal government in the first round of the Race to the Top program.
