Former Charlotte Mayor Richard Vinroot, a pioneer in North Carolina’s public charter school movement, touts the value of competition in public education. Vinroot offered these comments during a Jan. 23, 2017, speech to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society.
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Article 9 doesn’t say how “free public schools” should be organized or how student success is measured. Nor does it limit the scope of what the legislature can require schools to do.