The Health Commission met to review its legislative agenda on Tuesday, April 22nd and at the top of the list was the latest effort to outlaw corporal punishment (CP). The last time the Commission met, I detailed the plans by leftist Utopians to ban the practice of CP. Little did I realize then that the [...]
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NCDPI and Charter Schools: The War Continues
Last week’s State Board of Education (SBE) decision to penalize charter schools whose staffs lack the sufficient number of certified teachers is more evidence of the education establishment’s war on charter schools. New penalties for schools that fail to meet requirements could include withholding state dollars from charter school directors as well as the highest [...]
$72 million High School: April Fool’s Joke?
According to a reader: "The Local Government Commission will be meeting on April 1, to decide the debt application from Watauga County for $72 million for a new high school. This debt is being sought without a referendum."-Max Borders
Legislative Lowdown: Health Commission
The Public Health Study Commission met on Tuesday with a large agenda although,the most sensational moment by far was the display of a diseased lung to the committee by anti-smoking advocates just before lunch (Yum!). Tom Vitaglione, a Senior Fellow at the nonprofit organization Action for Children, presented his group’s wish list for the legislative [...]
Come be our Governor, Bobby Jindal
…because of what you’re doing in Louisiana on education, taxation, and ethics reform. The guy hasn’t been in office that long yet and already he’s been able to work with the Louisiana General Assembly to accomplish a lot of good things. Meanwhile, in N.C. we’ve got scandals aplenty (not to mention this garbage), a state [...]
