RALEIGH – None of the major speakers at a Thursday conference on education talked about North Carolina’s need for more charter schools. The state submitted its second application seeking Race to the Top grants in June. The money is offered by the federal government as an incentive to reform education. The state failed in its first attempt to win the money in part because of its restrictive policy toward charter schools.
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Anthony Greco is an associate editor of Carolina Journal.