THREE STRIKES: Wake County schools aspire to be like NYC
Three strikes and you’re out. That’s been the rule of thumb in the game of baseball. It’s been the law in a lot of states’ judicial systems.
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UNC Faculty: Don’t YOU PEOPLE worry about how we use the $$$ the govt shakes you down for
Bill Barber, his rabble, and their allies in the media and North Carolina Democrat Party have been hitting us with sob stories about the short-changing of
Continue readingThe politics of pre-school
The richest man in North Carolina was in DC to demand even more taxpayer-funded preschool: Jim Goodnight, the CEO of Cary software company SAS, spoke at
Continue readingSee June Spin. Spin, June, Spin.
Well, it appears that public education is back in the news. The North Carolina Bankers Association — of all groups — has endorsed the Common Core curriculum for the state’s
Continue readingPublic education: Where does the money go?
I found a quite provocative post on a great new web site called The Federalist about North Carolina’s public school system and its finances— a subject that
Continue readingRandolph County book ban brouhaha sheds light on leftist indoctrination in public education
McClatchy and their comrades are up in arms about the Randolph County school board daring to exert some sort of local control over public education. Heck. Even Russian TV and
Continue readingCommon Core: Dr. June, DPI centralizing & expanding collection of student data
While North Carolina’s mainstream media was on its extended Labor Day vacation, The Heartland Institute decided to pick up the slack and do a little reporting about what’s
Continue readingFree speech in its death throes in Chapel Hill
I worked on Capitol Hill for the late Senator Jesse Helms during his early-90s campaign to defund The National Endowment For The Arts. Leftists lashed out at him claiming that
Continue readingI’ll take “Comparative Queer Politics” for THREE Credit Hours, Alex.
We’ve heard ad nauseum from Big Bill Barber, his non-working, loitering rabble, and their comrades in the mainstream media about how Republicans in Raleigh are “starving education.” Never mind
Continue readingThe Carolina Way: Speech is Free (only for leftists)
Fifty years ago, The University of North Carolina passed a Speaker Ban to clamp down on Marxist interlopers trying to poison the young skulls of mush matriculating in Chapel Hill.
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