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Today, the U.S. House Education & Labor Committee held a hearing, “Underpaid Teachers and Crumbling Schools: How Underfunding Public Education Shortchanges America’s Students,” that included Dr. Sharon Contreras, the superintendent of Guilford County Schools (GCS). There was plenty of passionate debate during the committee meeting, but the…

Charlotte Observer reports the City Council rejected a proposal for four-year terms by a 7-3 vote. What’s interesting is the reasoning behind some council members’ ‘no’ vote: Council member LaWana Mayfield said council members need more time between elections. “This is not a part-time job,” said Mayfield, who also…

Nicole Russell writes for the Federalist about a recent court ruling in favor of First Amendment rights on a flagship public university campus. On Wednesday, a federal court ruled that the University of Iowa had illegally targeted religious groups for requiring their leaders to follow their faith. As…

Susan Ferrechio of the Washington Examiner looks into the political path for the proposed Green New Deal. Sixty-seven House Democrats have signed onto the “Green New Deal” resolution offered by rising star Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and they’re all pushing for a vote on the House floor. But it’s…

Kevin Daley of the Daily Caller highlights the latest comments from the U.S. Supreme Court’s most recent retiree. Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy warned university students that democracy is endangered by the decline of free and open civic debate. “We have a social framework of decency that…

Jay Cost of National Review Online ponders the prospects. Has the socialist moment finally arrived in the United States? Increasingly, the Democratic party seems to think so. Capitalism has had a nice run for the past couple hundred years, but now it is time to let the technocrats…

Kevin Williamson of National Review Online labels the Green New Deal as Sandy’s War. Sandy is the nickname U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used before she became a famous politician. [T]he call for a World War II–level national deployment in the service of an old, tired, hackneyed, shopworn Democrat-socialist…

Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online that scheduling a special election for North Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District could be tricky. Dan Way reports on the field of candidates who could run to replace the late Walter Jones in the 3rd District. The Daily Journal explains why…