Lindalyn Kakadelis is executive director of the NC Coalition for Charter Schools.
NC has much to celebrate this National Charter Schools Week
It’s National Charter Schools Week, and there is much to celebrate about North Carolina’s charter school movement. Public charter schools in our state now educate 145,000 students in 63 counties, and charter popularity continues to grow with families. In fact, the state’s charter school waitlist now features over 85,000 student names. Despite widespread popularity, however,...