INSIDE THIS ISSUE: DEPARTMENTS McCrory to North Carolina 2 C A R O L I N A Education 8 Feds: Send Local Government 10 From Page 1 14 N.C. no more Higher Education 17 illegal mi- Books & the Arts 20 Opinion 24 nors/2 A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF NEWS, ANALYSIS AND OPINION Parting Shot 28 JOURNALFROM THE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION September 2014 Vol. 23 No. 9 STATEWIDE EDITION Check us out online at carolinajournal.com and johnlocke.org NCGA Protest Rulings Could Ripple Downward effect on what another judge might de- termine in those [future] cases,” Joyner Court decisions could said. The North Carolina branch of affect state and local the NAACP and five individuals sued House Speaker Thom Tillis, Senate government meetings leader Phil Berger, the North Carolina Legislative Services Commission, and By Dan Way other government officials over rules Associate Editor enacted this year to replace 1987 regu- RALEIGH lations. legal challenge to the General The rules Assembly’s new rules on public were revised in use and behavior at the legisla- the face of regu- Ative complex could reshape public ac- lar Moral Mon- cess and speech rights on public prop- day protests led erty all the way by the Rev. Wil- down to local Moral Monday protesters in May file into the Legislative Building, objecting to the Re- liam Barber, the governments, publican-led General Assembly’s legislative agenda. Many wore tape over their mouths, state NAACP saying arrests of the demonstrators stifled their free-speech rights. (CJ file photo) say public-ac- president, along cess experts. “It really depends on what kinds time a court makes a decision it could with the AFL- P l a i n - of rulings [the courts] make. [They] affect somebody [who has] that same Judge Carl Fox CIO and other tiffs say North could be sweeping, or [they] could be kind of regulation,” Bluestein said. groups on the Carolina’s pro- very, very limited to that particular “At this point, the ruling applies legislative grounds and inside the Leg- tections of free building and those particular rules,” narrowly to the specific rules enacted islative Building. Capitol police arrest- speech at the said Frayda Bluestein, a faculty mem- by the General Assembly,” said Irving ed hundreds of people on misdemean- legislative com- ber at the UNC School of Government Joyner, a North Carolina Central Uni- or charges for violating the new rules. Rev. William Barber plex are suffi- who trains local governments on pub- versity Law School professor and an Orange County Superior Court ciently expan- lic access issues. attorney for the plaintiffs in the case. Judge Carl Fox issued on June 16 a sive to allow elsewhere the sorts of “It certainly is true that depend- “But where there are other rules temporary restraining order barring raucous rallies that have taken place ing on the outcome of this case, or any enacted by the city council or county enforcement of three of 54 provisions over the past two General Assembly other case dealing with public forum commission or whatever, that ruling sessions. analysis and free-speech rights, every could certainly have some persuasive Continued as “NCGA,” Page 14 New Hanover Board: AP History Course Biased PAID ly violates state law. RALEIGH, NC U.S. POSTAGE The resolution urges the State PERMIT NO. 1766 NONPROFIT ORG. Board calls on state Board of Education and state Superin- tendent June Atkinson to press the Col- superintendent to seek lege Board to delay the course imple- mentation for at least a year. implementation delay The College Board is a private company that administers standard- By Dan Way ized tests to K-12 students, measuring Associate Editor their readiness to attend college. RALEIGH New Hanover also was a catalyst ne of North Carolina’s largest in a statewide uprising among state school districts is calling on school officials against Common Core, the College Board to delay for resolution Aug. 19 saying the College resulting in a law, signed July 22 by Oone year its new Advanced Placement Board’s history curriculum “will have Gov. Pat McCrory, setting up a com- U.S. History course, labeling it an inac- the effect of usurping North Carolina mission to replace those controversial curate, deeply biased, revisionist view graduation requirements.” Lindalyn standards. David Coleman, generally of America. Kakadelis, director of education out- considered to be the architect of Com- The New Hanover County reach at the John Locke Foundation, The John Locke Foundation 200 W. Morgan St., #200 Raleigh, NC 27601 Schools Board of Education passed a says the way the course is offered like- Continued as “New Hanover,” Page 15 PAGE 2 SEPTEMBER 2014 | CAROLINA JOURNAL North CaroliNa C A R O L I N A McCrory to Feds: Send N.C. No More Illegal Minors By Dan Way “We also need more information on the procedures JOURNAL Associate Editor our schools must use in accepting documentation” to enroll RALEIGH the children, he said. Rick Henderson iting health, public safety, criminal justice, and fiscal Treating the incoming children could drain state re- Managing Editor concerns, Gov. Pat McCrory has called for immediate sources budgeted for North Carolina children needing federal action to address the relocation of 1,200 unac- health and social services, and some counties may not have Don Carrington Ccompanied illegal-immigrant minors into North Carolina. any extra money to care for the minors. Executive Editor “As governor of North Carolina, I’m calling on the Aldona Wos, state secretary of health and human ser- president and the leaders of Congress to cancel their vaca- vices, is coordinating a process through which all 100 coun- tion to solve this problem,” McCrory said at an Aug. 5 news ties can communicate DHHS activity involving the children Mitch Kokai, Michael Lowrey Barry Smith, Dan Way conference. in their sectors. Associate Editors “I encourage both leaders of Congress and the pres- Wos is worried that emergency officials will not be ident to reach out to governors, to mayors, to sheriffs, to aware of potential medical crises or mental health problems county health and school officials who are going to feel the among the influx population, McCrory said. Chad Adams, Kristy Bailey impact of this very, very serious issue in all states,” McCro- McCrory expects the number of undocumented chil- David N. Bass, Lloyd Billingsley ry said. “This is not the time to wait another two or three dren to rise “fairly dramatically” due to North Carolina’s Kristen Blair, Roy Cordato months.” large Hispanic population being targeted by the feds for Becki Gray, Sam A. Hieb Lindalyn Kakadelis, Troy Kickler McCrory said he is unaware of any legal recourse sponsor families. George Leef, Elizabeth Lincicome to block the relocation “President Karen McMahan, Donna Martinez or to prevent further Obama has all but in- Karen Palasek, Marc Rotterman federal distribution of vited the flood of ille- Jesse Saffron, Michael Sanera illegal immigrants to gal immigrants across George Stephens, Terry Stoops North Carolina, and our borders — and into Andy Taylor, Michael Walden his goal is to reunify our state — by making Karen Welsh, Hal Young John Calvin Young the children with their it clear that his admin- Contributors families in their home istration will do little to countries. deport those who are Julia Albert, Joseph Chesser “The way the caught,” said U.S. Rep. Chad Higgenbottom, Matt Shaeffer system is supposed Walter Jones, R-3rd Dis- Emma Wheeler to work is that these trict. Interns children should be re- “Instead of fur- turned home. Frankly, ther funding or fur- Published by The John Locke Foundation there should have been ther legislation, what 200 W. Morgan St., # 200 efforts in place long ago we need is a president Raleigh, N.C. 27601 to ensure that this large who will perform his (919) 828-3876 • Fax: 821-5117 wave of children should constitutional duty to www.JohnLocke.org not have been allowed enforce the law — and across the border,” Mc- that means securing Crory said. “But that our borders, deporting Jon Ham Vice President & Publisher system is severely bro- those who have arrived ken.” illegally, and making it John Hood The governor clear that such behavior Chairman & President characterized the will not be rewarded Obama administra- with citizenship in the Herb Berkowitz, Charlie Carter tion’s response to the future,” Jones said. Jim Fulghum, Chuck Fuller surge of illegal children “We are a nation Bill Graham, Assad Meymandi Baker A. Mitchell Jr., Carl Mumpower as woefully inadequate of laws, and those laws David Stover, J.M Bryan Taylor and said the situation must be respected and Andy Wells has mushroomed be- followed. We cannot Board of Directors yond a border crisis. simply open up our borders, and these children will ulti- “They aren’t ready for this volume. They aren’t ready mately have to be sent back to their home countries,” said Carolina Journal is for the security background checks. They aren’t ready for Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan. a monthly journal of news, analysis, and commentary on the health care. They aren’t ready for the follow-up of im- “I believe Congress should take action to address the state and local government munizations. They aren’t ready for recordkeeping. Our edu- humanitarian crisis on the border, but that response must and public policy issues in cational systems aren’t ready,” and the defective approach address the root causes of this migration by cracking down North Carolina. is being repeated in all states now housing the illegal immi- on the criminal trafficking operations that are transporting ©2014 by The John Locke Foundation grants, McCrory said.