The N.C. Public Charter Schools Association raised concerns during a morning news conference about the process used last month to screen applications for new charter schools. Association executive director Eddie Goodall contends 27 of 69 charter applications submitted by March 1 were rejected, many of them for minor technical issues unrelated to the substance of the applications.
Click play below to watch the 36-minute news conference, which starts with an unrelated briefing from Ember Reichgott Junge, author of Minnesota’s first-in-the-nation charter school law in the early 1990s.
