NC Justice Center analyst Kris Nordstrom on the legislature’s refusal to fully fund public schools
Kris Nordstrom (Courtesy photo)
One of the most remarkable, and in the minds of many, most shameful, developments in North Carolina public policy over the last three decades has been the failure of state leaders of both parties to fulfill their constitutional duty to provide all children in the state with access to a sound basic education. It’s now been over thirty years since the state Supreme Court clearly established the existence of such a right in the landmark Leandro case, but since then, elected leaders have found one excuse after another for ignoring it.
Thankfully, a cadre of…
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