Now the N.C. Court of Appeals agrees that CMS owes local charter schools money. Today’s decision even finds that CMS’ Bright Beginnings money should be part of the calculation. The trial court had agreed with CMS that it should not count.
Can we just stop paying lawyers to argue against the obvious?
Plus it occurs to me after reading about how universities in other state are getting into the charter school movement, this is what is motivating all the otherwise bizarre talk about the need for a single public education establishment in North Carolina that stretches from Head Start to Grad School.
Defenders of the status quo want to tie the hands of higher education in North Carolina so it is functionally impossible to bypass the countywide systems and essentially out-source competent K-12 education to alt-education like charters.
Anyway, yet another chance for Pete Gorman to show some leadership. Let’s see what happens.
