State lawmakers are busy with a session focusing on new congressional and legislative election maps, but they’ve wrapped up most of their other substantive business for the year. Becki Gray grades their performance in the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.

Terry Stoops will discuss how North Carolina’s teacher certification requirements stand in the way of virtual school expansion in the state, and you’ll hear legislative debate about a new law designed to ensure that public school students learn more about the nation’s founding principles.

Plus we’ll highlight a recent critique of the partisan redistricting process, and Lynn Harsh of the State Policy Network discusses think tanks’ roles in the battle for liberty.