Location! Location! Location! One of the first rules of creating a successful business is ensuring that it is located in the proper place. While it is, for many reasons, unwise to compare schools to private businesses, location can also mean a tremendous amount in the quality of education a student receives. The renewed [Continue Reading...]
One of the bills that became law during the 2011 session of the North Carolina General Assembly is called the “Founding Principles Act.” The new law changes, expands (and presumably, seeks to improve) how the state education system deals with “civic literacy.” It’s too bad state lawmakers didn’t somehow make themselves subject to [Continue Reading...]
“Please excuse our mess”: It’s a sign that all of us have encountered at a construction site at one time or another. It tells customers and passersby that, despite the current disorder, a more impressive setting will emerge — hopefully in the near future. Looking back on the performance of the North Carolina [Continue Reading...]
Although their rallying cry has been about “parental choice,” there is nothing in the actions of the narrow Wake County School Board majority that even hints that they truly want a participatory government that values the opinions or choices of the people they are supposed to serve. From the moment the new board members took their seats, they began to work without allowing any voice from the public. [Continue Reading...]
Wake County School Board Chair Ron Margiotta has said that he and the other members of the board are not “social engineers.” He believes that using poverty and/or race to create a diverse school district would be “social engineering.” [Continue Reading...]
