Public School Forum’s Lauren Fox on the top education needs facing North Carolina

About this episode

Lauren Fox discusses the critical education needs in North Carolina amidst fiscal challenges.

  The state of North Carolina finds itself in a fiscal policy mess thanks to a series of regressive income tax cuts, there’s no larger or more important public function that will be adversely impacted than public education. For many years now, thanks to the decisions of Republican legislative leaders, North Carolina public schools have […]

People in this episode

Guest: Lauren Fox

Topics covered

• education needs
• fiscal policy
• public education
• North Carolina politics
• tax cuts

Keywords

• North Carolina
• education
• fiscal policy
• tax cuts
• public schools

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Public School Forum, Republican legislative leaders

Places: North Carolina

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