Tag: Brian Echevarria

Is Cabarrus County a property-tax outlier?

It was a bit eye-catching earlier this month when the Locke Foundation, advocating for a levy limit on property taxes, said the biggest increase in the local tax burden over the past decade occurred in ruby-red Cabarrus County. As this is not what people generally think happens in Republican-run counties, I opted to take a […]

Written by on March 31, 2026

Achievement gaps in the crosshairs

Wednesday’s House Oversight hearing also allowed legislators to sound off about a perennial issue within the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, namely the large “achievement gap” between white and black students. This is quickly summarized via Department of Public Instruction student-proficiency statistics. For 2025, these show that 70.3% of the Chapel Hill system’s students tested on […]

Written by on December 12, 2025