NC voters show strong support for education scholarships, reduced health care regulation, and more freedom for nurses to do their jobs.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced Monday night that it had granted an extension of the Transitional Sheltering Assistance program, which provides hotel stays, until Jan. 25 for the over 3,000 eligible western North Carolina (WNC) residents affected by Hurricane Helene.
Rep. Tricia Cotham, R-Mecklenburg, presents House Bill 823 to colleagues on the House floor. The bill is titled “Choose Your School, Choose Your Future.” Cotham offered these comments on May 17, 2023. Video courtesy of ncleg.gov.
The leader of North Carolina’s branch of a national teachers union is dropping her lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program. The news arrives as state legislators debate expanding funding for scholarships in the next state budget.
Marie Miller, attorney at the Institute for Justice, explains how the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in Carson v. Makin, a case from Maine, could affect North Carolina’s lawsuit challenging the Opportunity Scholarship Program. Miller represents parents defending OSP. She argued on their behalf during a June 8 hearing at the N.C. Court of Appeals.
The N.C. Court of Appeals has agreed to block further pretrial discovery in a lawsuit challenging the state’s Opportunity Scholarship Program. The court granted a request from parents defending the school choice program. Scholarship defenders had complained about the legal tactics employed by plaintiffs challenging OSP. Plaintiffs’ lawyers had been engaging in “extensive,” “burdensome, ”...
Legislative defenders of North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program are asking the N.C. Court of Appeals to block “burdensome” trial court activity in a lawsuit challenging the program. They say trial court discovery should remain on hold until the Appeals Court resolves other issues in the case. In a lawsuit, “discovery” refers to the exchange of...
Seven years after the state's highest court upheld a scholarship program, it faces another strikingly similar legal attack.
A Superior Court ruling ensures that thousands of low-income families will find themselves, once again, without the means to send their children to the school that best meets their needs.
RALEIGH — The John Locke Foundation’s top education expert says a Wake County Superior Court ruling this morning takes opportunities away from low-income parents and children seeking alternatives to North Carolina’s traditional public schools. Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood declared the state’s new Opportunity Scholarship program unconstitutional.
RALEIGH — A voucher program is likely to offer North Carolina the most transparent, easy-to-understand school choice option the state could consider this year. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report offers that assessment. Vouchers also require no tax code changes.
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