Regardless of the outcome of this week’s election, North Carolina was guaranteed to have a new governor taking office in 2013. That raises some questions about the timing of a new vision statement from the N.C. State Board of Education, a group with membership based largely on appointments from the governor. Terry Stoops examines that vision statement in the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.
You’ll learn why some state lawmakers have concerns about driver’s education programs in North Carolina’s public schools, and why health and human services officials already expect a scramble to fill jobs in a replacement state mental hospital under construction in Goldsboro.
John Samples of the Cato Institute will chat about the likelihood that the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United campaign finance ruling will stand in the years ahead.
Plus Troy Kickler explains why two prominent historians are helping the N.C. History Project document “Five Things You Need to Know” about our fourth president, James Madison.
