Daily Archives: August 21, 2012

Lindsey Burke of the Heritage Foundation relays timely quotes from those who continue to urge traditional public schools to adopt alternative models of instruction. One of those models, a 1:1 laptop initiative, has been adopted successfully by the Mooresville Graded School District in North Carolina.  Political commentator Juan Williams acknowledged the Mooresville initiative in anContinue Reading

There was an interesting piece in the Charlotte Observer yesterday about the Charlotte Convention Center, where the Democratic National Convention will be held next month.  Like convention centers in many cities, Charlotte’s has not lived up to the promises that were made about its impact on the local economy.  Despite predictions that the center wouldContinue Reading

Cato Institute’s Neal McCluskey makes that point in this post. Obama (and many, many other politicians) talk about how “investing in education” is one of their top priorities, since that will supposedly improve the economy and make us more competitive with the rest of the world.  The trouble is that government spending on education yieldsContinue Reading

Public school officials in Fort Wayne, IN are mounting a campaign to persuade parents from removing their children from public schools. Here’s the story.  

Looks like there are more problems with the SBI’s crime lab.  The Asheville Citizens Times reports that there are backups in processing evidence that are slowing down the court system.  Funding cuts, not enough lab analysts, more testifying in court is leaving the crime lab and prosecutors and law enforcement officers in a bad way.Continue Reading

Dan D’Amico, an economist at Loyola University in New Orleans, points out in a new video that the federal government is an aggressive incarcerator—beyond even California and Texas. So not only is incarceration in the United States off the charts—with a prison population greater than all other developed nations combined—it is undermining local governance inContinue Reading

As Mitch pointed out, the N.C. Appeals Court upheld Superior Court Judge Howard Manning’s order to provide pre-kindergarten education to all “at risk” four-year-old children.  No suprise there.  But one of the concluding paragraphs is worth noting. Additionally, we would like to emphasize that while MAF was the remedy chosen by the legislative and executiveContinue Reading

In a 2-1 decision released this morning, the N.C. Court of Appeals has upheld a lower-court ruling that would force the state Correction Department to release two inmates who contend that they have served their full “life” sentences. At issue is whether prison credits issued for “gain time,” “good time,” and “meritorious service” should haveContinue Reading