This National School Choice Week, I, for one, celebrate the diversity of public schooling options currently available to North Carolina parents.
National School Choice Week kicks off on Sunday, and a variety of events are planned across North Carolina to celebrate educational access. Legislators, students, families, and educators are taking part in a series of school tours and interactive read-alouds to spotlight the diverse educational options available to families in the Tar Heel State. On Jan. 27...
Every one of Cooper’s budgets has defunded Opportunity Scholarships for low-income students, claiming they “are wrong.
By funding Opportunity Scholarships, North Carolina empowers parents to decide how and where their child is educated.
Gov. Roy Cooper has been a stalwart opponent of school choice since securing the governor’s office in 2016. That makes a proclamation from his office declaring Jan. 23-29 National School Choice Week in the Tar Heel State all the more surprising. The proclamation affirms that North Carolina is “home to a multitude of high-quality public...
Two of the Tar Heel State’s school choice programs have saved taxpayers between $74.1 million and $154.3 million through fiscal 2018, according to an updated analysis from the school choice advocacy organization EdChoice. Those figures translate to between $3,373 and $7,022 in local and state taxpayer savings for each student enrolled in these programs. “These...
A new survey from the nonprofit organization National School Choice Week shows that 52% of parents said they were considering — or considered in the past year — choosing a new or different school for their children. Education quality and pandemic disruptions were the topic reasons cited for finding another school: 36% of parents wanted...
As more and more of society becomes politicized, institutions suffer, including those geared towards instruction.
The coronavirus pandemic has created a window of opportunity for school choice, says a panel of experts at a John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury. School choice advocates want to upend education funding. They hope to tie funding to students instead of public-school systems, and they believe historic levels of learning loss could fuel their reforms. They...
A simple conversation with a neighbor about school options could transform their child’s life.
As North Carolina prepares to celebrate National School Choice Week Jan. 24-30, the cause of educational freedom could see even more advancement during the North Carolina General Assembly’s 2021-2022 session. School-choice advocates are coming off what turned out to be a breakout year for their cause, as millions of parents nationwide fled their locally zoned...
