Terry Stoops

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson took the stage at CPAC to introduce Congressman Madison Cawthorn.  Robinson used it as an opportunity to talk about the importance of citizen involvement in public education. Well, it didn’t take long for perpetually angry public school teachers to weigh in.  Here are a…

The photo is from The Wenatchee World in Washington. It creeps me out.

Chalkbeat has the story, The Biden administration said Monday that states must administer federally required standardized tests this year, but schools won’t be held accountable for the results — and states could give shorter, remote, or delayed versions of the exams. The decision means that schools…

WNCN reports, Teachers working in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools warn a new grading policy will harm high school students despite district leaders saying it will help them. As part of the new policy, three high school teachers tell WCNC Charlotte they can no longer give a student any grade below a…

The annual spring conference of the Student North Carolina Association of Educators (SNCAE) will feature a session on teaching social justice, presumably because colleges and universities aren’t doing enough to transform teachers into social justice warriors.

In his new report, “Robbers or Victims? Charter Schools and District Finances,” Rutgers University professor Mark Weber finds that the presence of charter schools does not drain resources from their host districts.  Instead, district resources tend to increase significantly.  Weber concluded: In most states, an increase in the percentage…

Chief Deputy Secretary Susan Gale Perry and State Health Director and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Elizabeth Cuervo Tilson delivered a presentation to the State Board of Education this morning.  They emphasized that schools are safe for reopening so long as preventive measures are in place. The NC Association of…

I don’t buy Effron’s explanation that the “editorial cartoon by Dennis Draughon is meant to point out that these members of the State Board are trying to wipe out from the social studies curriculum the record of racism which includes the Klan and the segregationist practices that were…