Today we’re publishing the conclusion to our three-part education series.In Part I we untangled the history of North Carolina’s confusing education bureaucracy, in which both the State Board of Education and the Department of Public Instruction have jurisdiction over the school system. Many incentives drive the two to war, not work, with one another. North Carolina’s schoolchildren…
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Thanks for joining us this morning. Continuing our focus on down ballot races, we’re assessing the state treasurer race today. We’ll get right to it. ***North Carolina’s treasurer is among the most powerful keepers of the public purse in the country. That’s because, as Business NC reported this week, North Carolina “is one of the three remaining states that…
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It’s been nearly six months since our last check-in on NCInnovation, and the organization has achieved a lot since then. After we get into those details, we’ll share a concept that earned a lot of attention in national media this week, and that has a few parallels – and important differences – to the model…
Read MoreLast week, we discussed work and purpose as key foundations for each of us. This week, we discuss the freedom to discuss our own thoughts – a freedom that is foundational to our Republic’s viability and vitality. Unfortunately, many now dismiss “threats” to the First Amendment as radical hyperbole, but we ignore this threat to…
Read MoreFrom the desk Chuck Fuller, CEO of The Results Company This Labor Day weekend, as I usually do on holidays, I write to share with you the themes that are on my own mind, usually informed by the books I’m reading. I often receive thought-provoking personal notes from many of you in response to these pieces.…
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Everybody knows the Republican and Democratic parties have changed in recent years. But the parties haven’t just grayed and added some wrinkles since the 1990s – indeed, each would be unrecognizable to its former self. Depending on your penchant for nostalgia, what follows is either an indictment or a great step forward, and it applies…
Read MoreTwo weeks ago, we published a deep-dive on the history behind North Carolina’s confusing education bureaucracy. Two entities have legal authority over North Carolina public schools: the State Board of Education, which is appointed by the governor, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, who is elected every four years. That’s a challenging governance structure, like a corporate…
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Thanks for reading this Saturday morning. Today we’re examining what was essentially Y2K +24. The CrowdStrike outage of July 19, 2024, grounded thousands of flights, delayed public transit, and impacted medical procedures at hospitals. What happened, and more importantly, what does it say about our reliance on computer systems? *** CrowdStrike is a prolific cybersecurity firm whose software…
Read More“Experience during the past several years has shown the necessity for having in a state one coordinated authority. . .When the reorganized State Board of Education has been established, it should be authorized to appoint the State Superintendent of Public Education.” So reads a recommendation for reorganizing North Carolina’s education bureaucracy – from 1948. The…
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