NC Policy Watch by Kris Nordstrom | In 2017, the Leandro v. State court case found that North Carolina is obligated to provide a sound basic education that benefits all children, and that it had long been failing to do so. As court-appointed consultants, LPI and WestEd, in collaboration with NC State’s Friday Institute, conducted a comprehensive examination of North Carolina’s public school system and made recommendations for how to change it to fulfill the court mandate.