Governor Roy Cooper visited Washington Gifted and Talented Magnet Elementary School in Raleigh to emphasize the dangerous impacts of extreme legislation proposed by Republican legislators that would dismantle public education in North Carolina in favor of increased taxpayer funding for unaccountable private school vouchers.
Gov. Cooper outlines devastating impacts of Republican legislature’s schemes to give vouchers to millionaires, defund public schools, and push culture wars in the classroom and urges North Carolinians to contact their legislators to protect public schools
In response to a skyrocketing number of deaths of children and youths caused by firearm injury and a surge in firearm thefts, the N.C. Department of Public Safety (NCDPS) today launches a statewide initiative to raise awareness of the importance of safe firearm storage.
Rep. Jon Hardister (R-Guilford, Majority Whip) passed HB 687 - Clarify Vacancy Filling Partisan Board of Education - which streamlines the process of filling a vacancy on partisan boards of education. The legislation applies statewide to any local board of education that elects their members on a partisan basis.
Governor Roy Cooper urged state legislators to make major investments in public education following a report from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction that showed students across the state experienced significant learning recovery in nearly every subject during the 2021-22 school year. These results come following over $5 billion in federal investments sent to North Carolina’s public schools to address the pandemic’s impact.
A North Carolina Senate bill was introduced Thursday that would prevent biologically female high school athletes from being forced to compete against biological males in sports designated for females.
School choice would continue its growth trajectory in North Carolina under a budget passed by the House April 6 in a bipartisan vote of 78 to 38.
Parents of two children expelled from a private school in Charlotte are asking the N.C. Supreme Court to step into their legal dispute. The school filed paperwork this week urging the state’s highest court to steer clear of the case.
A bill that would change the governance structure for three state schools for the deaf and the blind became law on Monday without Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper’s signature.
Republicans have proposed an ambitious expansion of the Opportunity Scholarship Program, opening the private school scholarships to all North Carolina families in a tiered system based on household income.
Book bans have been a real problem in history, typically by totalitarian governments — whether Marxist, fascist, theocratic, or otherwise. But parents who don’t want their young children given explicit tutorials on how to practice the latest sexual fads are not Robespierres in training.
Wednesday, the North Carolina House passed a bill requiring students at state universities to take a three-credit hour course on the U.S. Constitution and other founding documents by a vote of 69-47.
