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Most NC Students Have No Choice
RALEIGH — Most elementary and middle-school students in North Carolina do not attend a school chosen by their parents, according to a new study by the North Carolina Education Alliance that ranks each school district in the state on the extent of educational choice. Despite recent growth in private and home schools, the creation of charter schools in the mid-1990s, and the well-publicized introduction of a public-school choice plan in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, the study found that nearly three-fourths of all North Carolina students in grades three through eight attended a public school to which they were assigned by district officials.