3-18-15: “No matter how many times the Court has issued Notices of Hearings and Orders regarding unacceptable academic performance, and even after the North Carolina Supreme Court plainly stated that the mandates of Leandro remain ‘in full force and effect’ many adults involved in education, educators and school board members and others, still seem unable to understand that the constitutional right to have an equal opportunity to obtain a sound basic is a right vested in each and every child in North Carolina regardless of their respective age or educational needs.”
– N.C. Superior Court Judge Howard Manning, in March 17 notice of an April 8-9 Leandro hearing to explore elimination of statewide tests used by the court to track compliance with constitutional requirement that all N.C. children have “the equal opportunity to obtain a sound basic education.” Full text.