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What They’re Saying About Education In NC – 11/27/15 – #NCED

Posted on November 27, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Education news from around the state of North Carolina and Beyond.

ACTION ITEM: @SpeakerRyan, Two Days To Vet 391 Pages Impacting Millions of Kids?
Highlights: School crime/violence continues in CMS, WCPSS areas, School choice surging, Governor McCrory steps up & joins Amicus Brief and an update on Special Snowflakes on College Campuses.

Reminder: The final Academic Standards Review Commission meeting is Friday, December 18th.

KEEP READING… THERE’S MORE…. Continue reading →

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News and Observer Is Obsessed with Common Core – #ncpol #mediabias

Posted on November 24, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

The News and Observer editorial board is obsessed with Common Core. More specifically, they’re obsessed with defending Common Core, maybe because it allows them to smear the legislature at the same time. Continue reading →

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That Was Fast: @RoyCooperNC will NOT defend NC Children

Posted on November 24, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Yesterday I wrote wondering if Attorney General Roy Cooper would stand up to the increasing overreach by the U.S. Department of Education (USED) by joining an amicus brief regarding the USED’s lawfare to force schools to allow transgender to basically pick their bathroom or locker room at will.

The same day, AG Cooper answered and that answer was to give North Carolina parents and kids the middle finger. Continue reading →

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Will @RoyCooperNC Defend NC Students? Deadline Approaches.

Posted on November 23, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Will Attorney General Roy Cooper step up and protect NC Students and the state’s sovereignty over its own schools or will be side with the Obama administration’s increasingly power-hungry Department of Education?

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Parents, Do You Know What Goes On In Your Kid’s School? – #NCed

Posted on November 23, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Recently, I wrote an article for Civitas on a fight at Apex high that was caught on video and made the rounds on social media. When I looked deeper into Wake county schools and crime, I found that the police being called to area high schools was disturbingly common.

This is not an isolated set of events. This is going on all over North Carolina.

Keep the following information in mind as the creeping wave of practicing “restorative justice” in schools begins to swell. Also keep it in mind the next time you hear ‘school to prison pipeline’ being uttered.

KEEP READING… Continue reading →

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“Being black is very taxing at Carolina. Micro aggressions are everywhere.”

Posted on November 22, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

UNC Chapel Hill recently joined the Snowflake flurries hitting college campuses across the country when protesters interrupted a town hall on ‘race relations’. UNC Chapel Hill is probably the most liberal, left leaning college in the state, by the way. Continue reading →

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