RALEIGH (July 2, 2025) – State legislators went home last week for a couple of months without adopting a budget for 2025-27 – their basic duty as legislators. The 2025-26 fiscal year started yesterday. And schools will open next month regardless of whether legislators have approved a budget – or raises for teachers. In the… READ MORE
Tom Campbell: Giving in instead of digging in
RALEIGH (July 2, 2025) – Once upon a time, not many years ago, North Carolina had a dream. A dream shared by parents and politicians, by citizens and educators. We boldly dreamed our state would achieve excellence in public education. Not content to be average, we wanted to be in the top tier of states…. READ MORE
King Prather: A father’s fear
By N. King Prather Public Ed Works CARY (July 2, 2025) – My daughter, Lindsey Prather, is a public servant, an elected government official. A former educator, at 36 she is the youngest female in the North Carolina legislature. I could not be more proud of her. I could not be more afraid for her… READ MORE
House budget takes more cautious approach on taxes
RALEIGH (June 26, 2025) – The word of the year for 2025 is ‘uncertainty.’ So leaders of the state House think it’s a good idea to slow down state tax cuts scheduled for the next two years. “For the House it’s pretty simple,” state Rep. Donny Lambeth, R-Forsyth, Senior Chair of the House Appropriations Committee,… READ MORE
House takes the lead on teacher pay
RALEIGH (June 19, 2025) – Rep. Donny Lambeth, R-Forsyth, is the senior chair of the state House committee that will help decide how to spend more than $65 billion1 over the next two years. Before he came to Raleigh, though, Lambeth served as Chair of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school board from 1994-2012 and cites education… READ MORE
UNC-CH Research: $3B impact
CHAPEL HILL (June 13, 2025) – As Trump administration officials take aim at university research across the country, they need to recall that old line about the goose that laid the golden egg. UNC-Chapel Hill receives $1.55 billion a year in research grants. That in turn generates $3 billion in economic impact in the state,… READ MORE
Can UNC stand $150M hit to overhead?
CHAPEL HILL (June 13, 2025) – There’s been controversy this spring over the Trump administration’s proposal to cut the “overhead receipts” universities receive on federal research grants. Dr. Penny Gordon-Larsen, Vice Chancellor for Research at UNC-Chapel Hill, describes very clearly in the accompanying video what overhead receipts are, what such a reduction would cost the… READ MORE
John Hood: Put your tax cards on the table
RALEIGH (June 13, 2025) — The N.C. House and Senate have enacted very different versions of a 2025-27 state budget, even though two plans would authorize virtually the same amount of spending. The differences are so vast, in fact, that some insiders predict no comprehensive budget will pass this session. And the fundamental difference involves… READ MORE
Tom Campbell: In support of Roy Cooper and public education
RALEIGH (June 4, 2025) – I recently read an opinion piece from a noted North Carolina columnist essentially blaming former governor Roy Cooper for the sharp decline in North Carolina student test scores during and after the COVID pandemic. It asserted that Cooper closed North Carolina public schools too soon and left them closed too… READ MORE
Budgetary storm clouds
RALEIGH (June 4, 2025) – Which would you believe – a nonpartisan staff or a politician? In February, a consensus forecast between the General Assembly’s Fiscal Research Division and the governor’s Office of State Budget and Management projected a slight increase (0.5%) in state revenues for 2025-26 – but an $823 million (2.4%) decline in… READ MORE
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