Dr. Bob Luebke, senior fellow at the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, responds to a mainstream media attack against North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program. Learn more here: “Editors’ feeble complaints against the Opportunity Scholarship Program say more about them than the vouchers.”
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