Republican leaders within the new General Assembly say they want to lift North Carolina’s charter school cap early in the new legislative session ? an idea John Locke Foundation researchers have endorsed as part of their First 100 Days agenda.
Nationally known school choice advocate Howard Fuller also supports the idea. A participant in last night’s Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina forum, “No Longer Waiting for ‘Superman,'” Fuller is distinguished professor of education at Marquette University and former superintendent of the Milwaukee Public Schools. (As you can tell in the video below, he’s also a Green Bay Packers fan.)
You’ll have a chance in the coming weeks to hear Fuller offer Carolina Journal Radio his assessment of the current state of the school choice movement. In the meantime, in an interview excerpt omitted from the final version of the radio program, Fuller describes below the ideas he hopes North Carolina legislators will pursue in the new session that starts Wednesday.
