North Carolina House K-12 Education Committee Chairman David Willis says the state’s school funding model is “broken,” as education leaders examine whether the current position-based system should be overhauled. Meanwhile, NC Ports is targeting refrigerated and cold-chain cargo as a major opportunity in its five-year growth strategy, including expanded activity at the Port of Wilmington. Mitch Kokai of the John Locke Foundation joins the program to discuss State Treasurer Brad Briner and the State Employees Association of North Carolina renewing their support for a court challenge to the state’s certificate-of-need laws. Plus, federal regulators have issued the first U.S. construction permit for GE Vernova Hitachi’s BWRX-300 small modular reactor, technology developed in Wilmington.