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Read more: S.B. 337 eliminates key requirements for education
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If you were wondering if the tea party crazy train was slowing down in Raleigh these days, the beginning of this week ought to remove any doubt. It’s actually picking up steam as it drags North Carolina further to the right and further out of the mainstream.
The headline event was the long-awaited unveiling of the tax “reform” plan of the far-right Senate leadership, complete with its own website and slickly produced video featuring Senate President Pro Tem and likely U.S. Senate candidate Phil Berger standing in a factory while animation presenting misleading facts appear over his shoulder.
Berger says that North Carolina has the 44th “worst tax burden” in the country, citing the conservative Tax Foundation. Berger ignores the analysis from the General Assembly’s own Performance Evaluation Division that puts the state tax code in the middle of the pack among the 50 states.
The political commercial also included...
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NC Policy Watch and the North Carolina Justice Center are proud to announce a very special Crucial Conversation luncheon:
Why courts matter (and why North Carolinians should be paying a lot more attention to them)
Featuring the Honorable James A. Wynn, Jr., Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
If there’s one branch of modern government that’s, at once, more important and more neglected by caring and thoughtful Americans than the federal judiciary, it’s hard to say what that would be. Despite its enormous importance and influence in shaping our society, the judiciary – the cases before it, the decisions it renders, and the people who comprise it – receives far less attention than it (and they) deserve.
Here in North Carolina, a seat on the Federal District Court for the Eastern District has remained vacant for seven years with scarcely a ripple of public attention.
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The General Assembly has voted to make it possible for people to carry guns anywhere and everywhere ... except in the General Assembly....
Read more: Going to Raleigh tonight to protest our illegal and immoral government? Bring your guns.
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Last week , new State Board of Education Chairman Bill Cobey was not shy about sharing with his fellow board members his disapproval of SB 337 , which would create a new charter school oversight board and set policy for charter schools.
In advance of the bill’s vote on the Senate floor tomorrow, today Cobey shared with NC Policy Watch his continued reservations about the bill, calling into question its constitutionality.
“ The creation of a new charter school advisory board independent of the State Board of Education invites a lawsuit that could be tied up in court for years,” said Cobey. The chairman stopped short of saying the State Board of Education would initiate a lawsuit, saying that there has been no discussion on that point and that his colleagues were hoping SB 337 does not become law.
The current regulatory body in place, the Charter School Advisory Council,...
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