Category Archives: A.P. Dillon (LL1885)

See My Latest At Civitas — Update On Common Core In NC

Posted on February 24, 2016 by A.P. Dillon

My latest is up over at Civitas — Legislators Demand Action Against Common Core. Continue reading →

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Why is a NC School District being allowed to intimidate families using SRO’s for testing compliance?!

Posted on February 23, 2016 by A.P. Dillon

Why is a NC School District being allowed to intimidate families using SRO’s for testing compliance?!

Randolph County Schools are using SRO’s to enforce testing compliance rates? WHAT IN THE ACTUAL HELL?

KEEP READING Continue reading →

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Social Justice Is Crowding Out Actual Academics Using Our Tax Dollars

Posted on February 23, 2016 by A.P. Dillon

I’ve been pointing out over the last few years how Social Justice is trumping actual academics in our nation’s public schools and how Common Core has become a vehicle to increase the level of it.

I’ve highlighted it in my own state of North Carolina, but over in Missouri there is a Superintendent actually promoting it on Twitter. Continue reading →

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Another Day, Another Video of a Fight in NC Schools – #nced #ncdpi

Posted on February 22, 2016 by A.P. Dillon

Last Fall, I wrote about the questions raised by how common place fighting in Wake county schools was becoming.

These fights were being recorded often times with cell phones and uploaded to a Twitter account called #30SecondFights as well as other social media platforms. It came out that Raleigh police had responded to over 200 calls about fights from Wake County Schools.

Well now we have the same type of thing happening in Mecklenburg.

KEEP READING… Continue reading →

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Heartland Articles: USPS Reform and NC’s CSX Eminent Domain Case

Posted on February 21, 2016 by A.P. Dillon

My latest articles at Heartland are now available:

North Carolina Commissioners, Residents Reject Eminent Domain Proposal
Lawmakers Debate Post Office Entitlement Changes, Reorganization
Prior articles this month included:

Indiana Lawmakers Propose Excise Tax Hikes for Road Funding
North Carolina Panelists Break Ranks with Standards Commission
Kentucky Lawmakers Propose Rebooting State Education Standards Continue reading →

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Vote Protecting or Vote Harassing? – #NCpol #NCBOE

Posted on February 21, 2016 by A.P. Dillon

Those ‘non-partisan advocates for clean elections’ are back.

Now they want you to sign up to be a ‘vote protector’. Honestly, this looks more like ‘vote harasser’ to me. Check out Democracy NC’s latest Big Brother at the Polls campaign…

Continue reading →

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