Featured A themeless pudding of an education budget by Ferrel Guillory | September 18, 2015 The public education section of the General Fund budget making its way into law calls to mind the often-quoted wise-crack...
Featured Finally… a budget. Is it in the best interests of students? You decide by Alex Granados and Mebane Rash | September 16, 2015 Editor’s Note: This article was updated at 10:28am on September 16, 2015. The conference committee bill and report on the state budget...
Featured Education ‘polarizes’ legislative Republicans by Ferrel Guillory | July 10, 2015 Americans have grown accustomed, though not really reconciled, to partisan polarization. A chasm on specific issues and in overarching world-views...
News The Senate budget: An overview by Alex Granados | June 16, 2015 Update: The Senate met Tuesday and then adjourned until Wednesday at 11.am. Ever since the House budget was released a few weeks...
Perspective Encouraging civic dialogue about our budget by Mebane Rash | May 27, 2015 With 2.6 million Democrats, 1.9 million Republicans, and 1.7 million unaffiliated voters, our great state of North Carolina has an opportunity to...
News Three ideas to improve our school budget process by Adam Rhew | May 4, 2015 Let’s talk for a moment about the way we create budgets for public school districts in North Carolina. To be...
Featured N.C. leaders: Invest now to magnify the impact of great teachers on students, peers by Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan C. Hassel | March 12, 2015 North Carolina will never make the educational strides it needs until the best educators have far greater impact, for a...
Featured The Governor’s budget prioritizes K-12 public schools by Kerry Crutchfield | March 11, 2015 Governor McCrory’s proposed 2015-16 budget would be the first since 2008-09 to make public education a true priority in North...
Featured Top five myths of the public school budget by Philip Price | March 10, 2015 Ninety percent of North Carolina’s children attend public schools, and educating all 1.5 million of them costs the state about...
News McCrory’s budget includes funding for enrollment growth, new teaching jobs by Adam Rhew | March 9, 2015 The governor’s recommended budget is somewhat like the prologue of a long, meandering novel. It may give us a hint...
News Getting ready for the education budget: Legislative changes to the K-12 budget, 2011-15 by Mebane Rash | March 3, 2015 To think about the Governor’s budget, which we expect to be released this week, and the budget that the legislature...
News Getting ready for the education budget: What you need to know from 2014-15 by Mebane Rash | February 27, 2015 Between the campaign ads last fall and the negative headlines that dominate coverage of our schools, it is hard to...
