Just a few months away from leaving office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has ramped up his calls for increased spending on K-12 public schools and doubled down on his campaign to vilify the state’s school choice voucher program. In a statement on Aug. 20, Cooper said that public schools are where the majority of...
New reports from the North Carolina state government reveal a consistent rise in private and home school enrollments year-over-year. Private school enrollment has grown 3.2%, while Mecklenburg, Wake, and Union counties lead the state in the number of homeschool students.
A deep dive into the "Regional Economic Development Reserve Fund" and where the money is going.
A proposed bill in the North Carolina General Assembly would begin the process of revamping the state’s system of evaluating and grading public schools. The move would be in line with recommendations from Superintendent of Public Instruction Catherine Truitt, who proposed the new approach earlier this year. Under the current system, schools are graded on...
A measure introduced in the North Carolina House would expand transparency requirements in public schools, including by requiring teachers to post lesson plans online for easy access by parents. Filed on May 2, House Bill 1032, Academic Transparency, requires that lesson plans be posted online no later than 10 days after the lessons are handed out....
North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program has gotten a lot of headlines recently, and with good reason. The state’s voucher for private schools is poised to more than double its enrollment, dependent on whether lawmakers OK additional funding in the short session that convened just last week. But a lesser known school choice program in the...
North Carolina’s attrition rate for public school teachers ticked up last school year but remains below the national average, according to a new report presented to the North Carolina State Board of Education on Wednesday.
The North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority announced March 30 that 13,511 new students in the first award tier have been offered scholarships. Renewal families — those already enrolled in the program — have also been offered scholarships. Families have until April 19 to accept or decline the award offer.
Leaders in the General Assembly say they are in discussions over whether to boost funding for the Opportunity Scholarship Program due to surging demand.
Nearly 72,000 applications were received for the expanded Opportunity Scholarship program in North Carolina by the close of the priority application window March 1, according to new data from the state government agency that oversees the program. That record-breaking number more than doubles the current number of recipients. Demand was so high in the first...
Despite emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, North Carolina public schools continue to experience increased incidences of crime, violence, and suspensions, according to data from the NC Department of Public Instruction. A DPI report released at the end of January showed that public schools reported 13,193 acts of crime and violence in the 2022-2023 school year,...
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