The N.C. House on Thursday, Aug. 5, concurred with the Senate on a bill giving parents control over the COVID vaccine. House Bill 96, which passed on the concurrence vote, 106-5, requires written consent from a parent or legal guardian for a minor to receive a vaccine approved for emergency use, but not yet fully...
We got lucky. By we I mean my family, which includes my wife and twin boys, who are now 16. They have never attended a traditional public school. They haven’t attended a private school, either. But that’s the great thing about freedom of choice. It gives North Carolina parents options, in this case the ability...
Teachers and parents, we have a trust problem. Just 36 percent of public school teachers express “complete” or “a lot of” trust in parents, EdChoice’s new “Schooling in America Survey” says. What’s eroding trust? One likely culprit: Parental expectations are sky-high. Harried millennial parents want schools to teach skills once considered part of child-rearing. In a new Walton Family...
RALEIGH — For Susie Johnson, a Youngsville resident and stay-at-home mother of four special-needs children, paying the bills each month is struggle enough. But watching her sons languish in the public schools was far worse. Some of Johnson’s burden was lessened when Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina, a nonprofit school choice advocacy group, gave her a $2,500 scholarship. Now, she can send two of her boys to Friendship Christian School in Raleigh.
WASHINGTON, DC — This brief analyzes parents’ reports how well schools supply information to families, using data from the 2003 Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey and another well-known 1996 survey.
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