Across the Carolinas

Does District’s Budget Crisis Signal Deeper Trouble for NC?

Is the financial mess in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools an isolated incident or a sign of more trouble ahead for North...

For an Effective Scholarship Tax Credit, Feds Must Bend the Knee to States

Part four of a five-part series on the new federal scholarship tax credit We asked five school choice proponents to offer...

WCPSS tries to do tutoring on the cheap — and fails

A recent article in the News & Observer said that officials from the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) are blaming the federal funding...

Gov. Stein’s defense of his veto of HB 87: far from convincing

School choice is good for students and parents, and I have long supported magnet and accountable charter schools because public...

NC at risk: Assessing academic achievement in the Carolinas

A new report shows that students across the Carolinas face many of the same problems identified by the Reagan administration...

Federal tax credit scholarship requires a good, hard look

Did North Carolina make another first? Yesterday, the state House passed House Bill (HB) 87, an act to allow the state to...

Gov. Stein and General Assembly far apart on ed bills, but there is hope

Gov. Stein hasn’t been giving conservatives much to be happy about of late. Last week, he vetoed several bills, including...

NC General Assembly tackles student protections, cell-phone use, and calendar flexibility

Education is an important part of North Carolina’s 2025 legislative agenda, with lawmakers debating several bills that could affect classrooms,...

Making Opportunity Scholarships available to middle- and higher-income households doesn’t make it bad policy

A new report finds only a small amount of Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) recipients in 2024–25 had been enrolled in...

Need funding for your microschool?

Microschools are one of the one of the newest and most creative ways to deliver educational services.  Microschools are small...

ESA expansion bill puts us on path to universal school choice

Common Questions About Education Scholarship Accounts (ESAs)

What is an ESA?ESAs allow parents to apply for eligible students to receive the state portion of education funds (or...

The Gaslighting of South Carolina Parents

Do you know the origin of the term “gaslighting”? The act of “gaslighting” was made famous by the MGM film...

BREAKING: Proposed Library Regulation Passes

On September 28, the State Department of Education (SCDE) published a draft of a “new regulation that addresses school and...

The NEA Sues South Carolina: Does Their Tillman Constitution Claim Have Merit?

Last week, the National Education Association (The NEA/The SCEA) and others announced that they had filed suit against the State...