Terry Stoops

The National Center for Education Statistics released The Condition of Education 2019 this week.  It’s packed with juicy data. I thought that one data point was worth highlighting: the percentage of state revenues dedicated to K-12 schools in 2016.  Only a handful of other states contribute a larger share…

In a round table discussion of the “health care coverage gap,” Gov. Roy Cooper championed faith-based preschools. Participants in the round table included Cassandra Brooks, who owns Little Believers Academies. Little Believers Academies provides a “loving, happy place for young children to learn and grow as we bridge the gap…

In an excellent Education Next blog post, Dr. Brian Kisida and Olivia Piontek respond to claims by UCLA’s Civil Rights Project and others that school segregation has worsened.  The authors offer a useful summary of the difficulties of measuring it using absolute and relative measures. They observe, In contrast, relative…

The Clarion-Ledger has the skinny, Teachers across the state shed pounds thanks to Weight Watchers courses paid mostly with state education money. But the biggest loser? Mississippi taxpayers. Lawmakers gave Weight Watchers about $300,000 a year from 2011 to 2016, but documents from the…

Great story from the Martin County Enterprise & Weekly Herald about a student who attends the North Carolina Virtual Academy. Growing up, Jalen Barkley dreaded going to school. Born with a speech and development delay, he was the target of classroom bullies. … His freshman year he wanted to try attending…

Is this what the PTA has become? God forbid that PTA leaders would invite the elected leader of North Carolina public schools. From N.C. Teachers United:…

PTA organizations have been involved in advocacy for years, but recently they have taken a hard left turn, opposing charter schools and supporting teacher walkouts.                       May 23 Update The executive board members of the Wake…

Madeline Will of Education Week has a fascinating story about the dismissal and resignation of black educators after the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Will writes, Sixty-five years ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation of children in public schools…