Our friends at Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina have produced a great video about an important topic: parental choice in education. While we talk incessantly about diversity in the schools, we still cling to a one size-fits-all educational model. All parents want to be able to provide the best for their children. However [...]
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Dropout problems not confined to K-12
Most significantly, community college three year-year graduation rates average in the low 20 percent range, with many colleges graduating far fewer than this average. In 2009, the last year for which the federal government has reported data, close to 400 community colleges had graduation rates of less than 15 percent. For the minority of students [...]
Wanted: Fact Checker
The N&O has developed “Fact Check” articles to assess the “truth” of various claims. I question the objectivity of the site’s claims, but that’s another story. Last week I found the following N &O Fact check story in Under the Dome. It’s a column assessing the validity of Gov. Perdue’s claims saying there are fewer [...]
WCPSS and School Personnel Changes
With the Wake County Board of Education now considering a budget for the state’s largest school system, the air is rife with talk about budget reductions and how Wake County Public Schools (WCPSS) would be hardpressed to endure more layoffs. How did last year’s state budget impact WCPSS staffing? The listing below reflects personnel changes [...]
N&O Tells a Whopper on Public Education
I sent in the following letter to the N&O, in response to the whopper told in this editorial. The N&O editors, in discussing public education funding in the FY 2011-12 state budget passed last summer, printed an outright lie (Perdue’s Education Punch, March 21). In the article, they claim the 2011-12 budget “ordered local school [...]
