Dr. Bob Luebke, senior fellow at the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses a misleading News & Observer editorial about N.C. school choice. Learn more here: “Case for stopping Opportunity Scholarship expansion lacks facts — and support.”
Locke’s Bob Luebke rebuts false narrative about N.C. school choice expansion
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