Those are just a few details from a post on the website of the North Carolina Democratic Party that details Stoops’ far-right, anti-public-schools activism and tags him as instrumental in the adoption of that state’s version of “don’t say gay” and “anti-indoctrination” legislation. Truitt won her seat with the backing and blessing of the Locke Foundation and like-minded groups, on a platform of doling more taxpayer dollars out to private and charter schools.Ĭoincidentally (we’re sure) Stoops and his wife also operated a charter school in Wake County, N.C. In October 2022, his LinkedIn profile shows that he left the Locke Foundation, becoming “Advisor of Academic Research and Policy” to North Carolina’s elected education superintendent, Catherine Truitt. Yet less than a year later, Stoops was grabbing some of that money for himself. But a money grab on behalf of public school students sounds like the kind of money grab we could get behind. ![]() We can’t speak for everyone in North Carolina, certainly. In a statement from the foundation’s website, Stoops accused the judge of being “complicit in a scheme to extract billions of dollars in taxpayer money without approval from the legislature,” and said the ruling was “not a moral crusade (but) a money grab.” Stoops’ background includes stints at the far-right John Locke Foundation, where he railed against a landmark 2021 North Carolina court decision that applied the same type of standards to education funding in that state, and found its Legislature deficient to the tune of $785 million in that year alone. ![]() ![]() Terry Stoops and this new “Academically Successful and Resilient Districts” dept at the FLDOE seems ready to serve M4L-backed BM (and parents who interact with them) at bad none of the other Board Members in the district have received the same offer of support. Before we started asking, the feisty F lorida Freedom to Read Project managed to dig out a few months of Stoops’ calendar along with emails he’d sent to selected school board members around the state (more on that later) but so far as we’re aware, those are the only public records anyone has managed to shake loose. That’s how long the state of Florida took to provide the most fundamental information about a man who’s pulling down a six-figure, taxpayer-funded salary, has at least two government-paid underlings and appears to be on the hunt for more.Īnd the information the Sentinel has been able to wrest from official sources is meager indeed: Terry Stoops’ salary, start date and and title as the head of a new state office that seems to exist only to provide aid and comfort to ultra-conservative school board members across the state, along with the pay and title of the two people working from him, and where the money is coming from to fund all those salaries.
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