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Derek Scott

What You Need to Know about Wake County Schools Standardized Test Results

People are making wild claims about Wake schools’ test scores collapsing, but these are based on bad assumptions and accounting changes…

Oct 30, 2022

What You Need to Know about Wake County Schools Standardized Test Results

Oct 30, 2022

Derek Scott

Elephant in the Room

Cheryl Caulfield’s Partisan Blind Spots Make Her a Poor Choice for Wake County

Oct 24, 2022

Elephant in the Room

Oct 24, 2022

Derek Scott

Can’t Go Back Again

It seems unfriendly to ask folks for attention to yet another political thing right now, but local elections will always be as important…

Oct 5, 2020

Collage of embarrassing headline news made by Deborah Prickett’s 2009–2011 Wake school board majority

Oct 5, 2020

Derek Scott

Bad, Bad Harry Brown

Attacking Wake with the NCGA GOP’s Tiredest Argument

May 11, 2019

Bad, Bad Harry Brown

May 11, 2019

Derek Scott

North Carolina Teacher Pay In Context

How to Interpret Election-Year Claims on a Hot Subject

Apr 9, 2018

North Carolina Teacher Pay In Context

Apr 9, 2018

Derek Scott

The Real Question is Why Real Per-Student Spending Hasn’t Risen Faster

What EVERYONE Should Know about K-12 Spending in NC

Jun 23, 2017

The Real Question is Why Real Per-Student Spending Hasn’t Risen Faster

Jun 23, 2017

Derek Scott

Actually, Civitas, NC’s 2013 Tax Changes Really Were a Huge Windfall for the Rich

Let’s Dispense with This Nonsense

Jun 12, 2017

Actually, Civitas, NC’s 2013 Tax Changes Really Were a Huge Windfall for the Rich

Jun 12, 2017

Derek Scott

Gorsuch: of Course It’s Political

Folks: the reason why it’s historically been considered unseemly to politicize judicial appointments is that the judges themselves were…

Apr 6, 2017

Apr 6, 2017

Derek Scott

Unofficial DeVos Confirmation Hearing Transcript

UPDATE 2/7/17: Dear future Earthlings: I know you’re all wondering how one Betsy DeVos came to be the US Secretary of Education, a…

Jan 19, 2017

Unofficial DeVos Confirmation Hearing Transcript

Jan 19, 2017

Derek Scott

Phil Berger’s Account of the HB2 Repeal Fiasco Doesn’t Add Up

Some time has passed since the NCGA Special Session 5 debacle, and a lot of explaining has issued forth from the various players. Despite…

Jan 10, 2017

Phil Berger’s Account of the HB2 Repeal Fiasco Doesn’t Add Up

Jan 10, 2017

Derek Scott

Derek Scott

I’m a computer programmer who’s been writing for a few years about NC public education budgeting and other state-level issues with an eye on the numbers.

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