Opinion
Charter schools have earned their place as a proven option for NC students
This National School Choice Week, I, for one, celebrate the diversity of public schooling options currently available to North Carolina parents.
Opinion
Pressure to innovate helps prompt charter school’s success
A school that's sending all of its graduates to college once faced the threat of closing.
Opinion
Charter school was best choice for special-needs child
Stories about the value of school choice and the healthy competition it nurtures are ubiquitous yet salient. Proponents of traditional public schools often degrade charters and school choice in general by defining the schools and ideology as elitist, discriminatory, unaccountable, and a drain on funding for those traditional public schools. None of that is true....
News
Charters Seek More Equitable Funding
RALEIGH — State Rep. Paul “Skip” Stam, R-Wake, is working with charter school operators and advocates on legislation proponents say would restore millions of dollars to charter schools previously stripped away by Democrats “in the dark of night” to benefit traditional public schools. The money would come from local current expense funds that have been reallocated in violation of the spirit of the charter school laws, advocates say.
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Charter School Board May Have Constitutional Problems
RALEIGH — Senate Bill 337 would create an independent Public Charter Schools Board to provide technical assistance to charter schools and applicants, establish rules, oversee the application and approval process, monitor existing charter schools, renew charters, and revoke them. But critics say creating that board would violate the North Carolina Constitution.
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Charter School Wins Funding Battle in N.C. Court of Appeals
RALEIGH — A three-judge panel decided unanimously in September that the Rutherford County public school system owes Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy more than $730,000. Appellate judges agreed the school system had shorted the charter school funding for the 2007, 2008, and 2009 budget years.
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GOP Adds Free Lunch and Transportation to Charter School Bill
RALEIGH — Senate Republicans made three major concessions to Democratic critics. The State Board of Education would have more control over a proposed Charter School Commission. And charters would have to provide food and make efforts to offer transportation to low-income students.
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Sugar Creek Charter School Hits the Sweet Spot with Students
CHARLOTTE — Located in the confines of a nondescript former K-Mart store in an old strip shopping center, this unique charter school has renovated the large former retail space into a successful inner-city learning environment serving 675 disadvantaged students, 99 percent of African American heritage, in grades K-8.
Opinion
Charter Critics Create Cynics
RALEIGH -- State government leaders appear to be going out of their way to hurt North Carolina's public charter schools.
News
Court: Charlotte Underfunded Charters
RALEIGH — The N.C. Court of Appeals ruled last week that Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools systematically underfunded five charter schools in the county. The schools stand to gain nearly $500,000 because of the ruling, which could impact other charter schools and systems across the state.
