[This story has been updated with additional comments] Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed a bill that would allow a low-performing virtual charter school to add students. Senate Bill 392 contains a provision that would lift the maximum student enrollment cap for one of…
U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and N.C. Lt. Gov. Dan Forest this week gathered a roundtable of school-choice advocates to pitch Education Freedom Scholarships. The idea from the U.S. Department of Education is designed to enhance school-choice efforts. If…
Policy experts and lawmakers point to Senate Bill 609, K-12 Scholarship Changes, as a noteworthy way to advance school choice in North Carolina. Several prominent school-choice advocates gathered Wednesday, June 5, at a panel on school choice hosted by the libertarian Cato Institute and the…
The U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan resolution May 14 celebrating the 20th anniversary of National Charter School Week. National Charter School Week runs from May 12 to May 18 and celebrates the more than 7,000 public charter schools across the…
Raleigh Charter High School is one of the top schools in the country, but it’s not what one would call a typical public school. The school doesn’t have a cafeteria or an auditorium. Students don’t have a gym or sports facilities, though students can still participate in…
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…
Quite apart from the salutary effects of fitting individual students to the schools best suited for them, competition improves the quality of education provided.
The Civitas Institute, a conservative public policy organization, has released its annual school choice poll, just in time for National School Choice Week. The results of the poll suggest a majority of North Carolina voters approve of school…
Happy National School Choice Week! Today at noon, the John Locke Foundation will host Mike Long, President of Parents For Educational Freedom in NC, to discuss the quest to empower families in North Carolina with the freedom to choose an education that best meets the needs of their child. …
National School Choice Week began in 2011 and ever since then, thousands of events across the country have celebrated choice and educational opportunities. This year, NSCW runs from Jan. 20 to Jan. 26. North Carolina has slightly more than 1,000 events and activities…
