Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday, April 9, signed two bills into law designed to help students who lost more than a year of in-person learning because of the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns. House Bill 82, Summer Learning Choice for NC Families,…
A new poll sponsored by a school-choice advocacy organization shows support for educational choice nationwide has increased to a new level of 71% of registered voters. The poll — conducted by Real Clear Opinion Research on behalf of the American Federation for Children…
Two bills sitting on Gov. Roy Cooper’s desk are designed to remediate learning losses for K-12 students left behind by classroom closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The first — House Bill 82, Summer Learning Choice for N.C. Families — would…
Republicans in the N.C. House are advancing a bill that would expand and strengthen the state’s three school-choice scholarship programs that help low-income children and those with special needs attend a private school. The action sets up a coming confrontation with Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat,…
John Locke Foundation CEO Amy Cooke, “The Right AOC,” explains why Gov. Roy Cooper’s new budget plan should send a warning signal to fiscal conservatives. Contact Amy at [email protected] Follow her at https://www.facebook.com/TheRightAOC and https://twitter.com/TheRightAOC.
Charter school leaders in North Carolina are urging incoming U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to continue federal support and protection for charters moving forward. The N.C. Association of Public Charter Schools is one of 50 organizations signing on to a new letter calling on Cardona to follow a…
A plan for North Carolina to provide an opportunity for a sound, basic education to all students now waits with a judge in Superior Court. On Monday, March 15, defendants in the long-running Leandro lawsuit, in consultation with plaintiffs in the case, submitted a document called the Comprehensive Remedial…
Parents in 14 North Carolina public school districts would have the option of sending their children to full-time, in-person instruction under a local bill approved by the N.C. House K-12 Education Committee on Tuesday, March 9. The measure, House Bill 90, is designed as an end run around…
N.C. Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, says lawmakers are negotiating with Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, on a plan to reopen schools. Berger, in a news conference Tuesday, March 9, with Sen. Deanna Ballard, R-Watauga, offered no specifics about the plan. Berger had scheduled a…
The N.C. State Board of Education passed a resolution Thursday, March 4, calling on all public school districts to give parents the option of in-person learning by the end of March. The education board’s action is the latest step in a growing consensus to swiftly reopen school classrooms across the…
