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In total there are 2,425 public schools in the state, including over 200 charter schools. [15] North Carolina Schools were segregated until the Brown v. Board of Education trial and the release of the Pearsall Plan. Previously the SAT was the dominant university entrance examination students took. In 2004 76% of NC high school students took the ...
As the fallout continues from CNN’s report on Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s alleged history of graphic and disturbing online comments, some on social media are referencing North Carolina’s ...
Conviction politics is the practice of campaigning based on a politician's own fundamental values or ideas rather than attempting to represent an existing consensus or simply take positions that are popular in polls.
Another signature program [citation needed] of Easley's was the "Learn and Earn" initiative, which enabled North Carolina high school students to earn college credit by taking online courses at no cost to them or to their families. [13] The "Learn and Earn" program received the Innovations in American Government Award from Harvard Kennedy ...
Each week, join Dawn Vaughan for The News & Observer and NC Insider’s Under the Dome podcast, an in-depth analysis of topics in state government and politics for North Carolina.
The government of North Carolina is divided into three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial. These consist of the Council of State (led by the Governor), the bicameral legislature (called the General Assembly), and the state court system (headed by the North Carolina Supreme Court).
State v. Linkhaw, 69 N.C. 214 (N.C. 1873), was a case in which the North Carolina Supreme Court reversed a criminal conviction for disturbing a religious congregation. . Defendant William Linkhaw, a Methodist, sang so poorly in church that a grand jury indicted him for disrupting the church's ser
In last month’s South Carolina case, Alexander v.NAACP, the U.S. Supreme Court continued to press the Republican crusade against pluralistic democracy.Earl Warren and Thurgood Marshall (and ...