The group Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina urges state lawmakers to act on legislation designed to lift North Carolina’s statewide public charter school cap. Speakers at a June 7, 2011, news conference are PEFNC’s Darrell Allison, Sen. Malcolm Graham, D-Mecklenburg, Rep. Marcus Brandon, D-Guilford, Peter Groff of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, Bishop Charles Mellette of Christian Provision Ministries in Sanford, Durham fifth-grader Aniekan Affiah, and Aniekan’s mother Colette Affiah.