This week on Family Policy Matters host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Michael Donnelly from the Homeschool Legal Defense Association to discuss the rapid rise in homeschooling that has occurring during this pandemic [... more]

One of the sticking points in this year's state budget debate involves the State Capital and Infrastructure Fund or SCIF Legislators propose using SCIF instead of a statewide bond to fund school construction projects Gov Roy Cooper objects Joseph Coletti John Locke Foundation senior fellow analyzes the SCIF He explains how it can work better faster and cheaper than a bond package Some state lawmakers want to take another look at what they call an opportunity gap in N C public schools You'll learn details of their proposed study and hear reaction from Terry Stoops John Locke Foundation vice president [... more]

Carolina Journal has spent more than years exposing government boondoggles CJ recently revisited two of the most prominent ill-fated projects that left taxpayers on the hook Editor-in-Chief Rick Henderson discusses the -year anniversary of the failed Randy Parton Theatre in Roanoke Rapids and the -year anniversary of the disappointing Global TransPark surrounding the Kinston Airport America faces numerous foreign policy and national security threats Van Hipp tracks them as chairman of American Defense International Inc During a recent visit to Raleigh Hipp spelled out his key concerns about interlocking threats from North Korea radical Islam and other sources The term [... more]

This week NC Family president John Rustin talks with Nina Rees president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools about how North Carolina's charter school law performed in a new report that ranks charter school laws across the nation [... more]

NC Family president John Rustin talks with Darrell Allison president of Parents for Education Freedom in North Carolina about North Carolina's new Opportunity Scholarship Program that is aimed at empowering parents in lower income families to send their children to the non-public school of their choice [... more]