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

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 listed along near the bottom of national rankings in a host of important funding categories. A landmark lawsuit – the Leandro case — sought to alter this situation by establishing that all schoolchildren in the state have a constitutional right to a sound basic education, but GOP lawmakers ignored the ruling and recently succeeded in getting a Republican majority on the court to effectively gut it. So where do things stand now and what’s next for public education in our state? Recently, Newsline sat down to discuss these questions with the Public School Forum of North Carolina’s Senior Director of Policy and Interim President/CEO, Lauren Fox. Click here to listen to the full interview with the Public School Forum’s Lauren Fox.

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Public School Forum’s Lauren Fox on the top education needs facing North Carolina is an episode from NC Policy Watch by NC Policy Watch.

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This episode was published on Apr 20, 2026.

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