Contrary to the rehashed claims of opponents, North Carolina’s popular Opportunity Scholarship program helps many parents afford private schools The...
10 charter schools that deserve recognition
We talk plenty about the problems with education in North Carolina. There are. plenty of challenges. Yet we shouldn’t forget there...
Do private schools in North Carolina have room to grow?
A new report from the John Locke Foundation sheds light on private school capacity in light of rising private school...
UNC policy discussions must be held in the open
A complaint filed in a North Carolina superior court accuses the UNC–Chapel Hill Board of Trustees of conducting policy discussions...
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...
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...
