Dr. Terry Stoops, director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses public charter schools in North Carolina. Stoops offered these comments during National School Choice Week. Watch a discussion about school choice for Locke’s Shaftesbury Society: https://www.johnlocke.org/event/fundi…. Join Stoops for a Jan. 28 discussion of Civitas Poll results on school choice: https://www.johnlocke.org/event/civitas-poll-lunch/.
Locke’s Terry Stoops assesses current state of N.C. public charter schools
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