Raleigh, N.C. – None of the major speakers at a conference on education talked about North Carolina’s need for more charter schools.
Those speakers included the governor, lieutenant governor and a policy analyst for the U.S. Department of Education. The conference was Thursday.
The state submitted its second application seeking Race to the Top grants in June. The money is offered by the federal government as an incentive to reform education. N.C. failed in its first attempt to win the money in part because of its restrictive policy toward charter schools.