Dr. Terry Stoops, John Locke Foundation director of education studies, explains that the new Republican-led General Assembly should focus on raising North Carolina’s cap of 100 public charter schools. Stoops offered these comments during an interview for the Nov. 26, 2010, episode of News 14 Carolina’s “Political Connections.”
JLF’s Terry Stoops makes the case for boosting the number of N.C. charter schools
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