A bill allowing a few towns to operate their own charter schools is closer to becoming law. The Senate education and rules committees passed House Bill 514 on Wednesday, May 30, but not without criticism. H.B. 514 would allow four Mecklenburg…
Lawmakers want to give virtual charter schools more time to improve student performance as the four year pilot program nears completion. The Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee approved a draft report on Tuesday, May 1, including proposed legislation to extend…
Charter schools have flourished in North Carolina since 2011, when the General Assembly removed the statewide cap of 100. Along with the rest of the country, though, that growth recently has started to slow. This slowdown may be due to market saturation, as a…
The continuing battle over separation of powers between Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the Republican-led General Assembly played out simultaneously in two venues Friday morning. At the Legislative Building, the Senate debated and passed House Bill 90, a measure among other…
GREENSBORO — UNC Greensboro will take over a low-performing Rockingham County elementary school this year, a chance for student teachers and administrators to lend a hand to struggling children and families. There’s just one problem. UNC-G isn’t in the habit of operating a school educating…
Proponents of school choice in North Carolina have reason to cheer the state’s ninth-place ranking in the Center for Education Reform Parent Power! Index for 2017. But they may want to soften their applause, as challenges remain in providing even more parents and students with…
Support for school choice isn’t going away, although critics say otherwise. While a poll by Education Next on education issues found a drop in public support for charter schools, support for school choice options, such as vouchers for low-income families, stayed the same…
From Carolina Journal Radio Program No. 742: Home schools educated more than 127,000 North Carolina students in the last academic year, while private school enrollment topped 100,000 for the first time. This growth prompted Terry Stoops, the John Locke Foundation’s vice president for research, to recommend that North Carolina…
Two N.C. State University researchers say the university has silenced them because they’ve raised concerns about potential negative impacts from utility-scale solar energy projects in North Carolina. In a Carolina Journal exclusive, Associate Editor Dan Way has documented evidence of the university’s efforts to downplay the researchers’ work. North Carolina…
It would be exceedingly odd if K-12 education were so different from other large-scale enterprises that standard rules of human behavior didn’t apply to it.
