Gov. Roy Cooper called for a moratorium on spending on the Opportunity Scholarship Program during a meeting of the State Board of Education on March 7, even as demand for the voucher program more than doubled this year. “Most private schools are not better than our public schools,” said Cooper, a Democrat. “[This] is a...
RALEIGH — State Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson said her concerns about allowing students to use vouchers to offset the cost of private schooling was more a principled support of public schools’ role in modern society than the effect vouchers could have in meeting individual children’s needs.
“Money, money, money, money, money.” So goes the refrain of the song by the O’Jays, forever immortalized in the pantheon of primetime television by real estate mogul Donald Trump. Trump’s skillful apprentices notwithstanding, most of us still relegate an all-encompassing preoccupation with money to the world of high finance.
