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How the public feels about education issues is recorded by a stream of never-ending polls. It’s rare to have a poll ask teachers their views on a variety of education…
North Carolina is starting to progress toward statewide K–12 open enrollment, a type of school choice that lets parents choose any traditional public school with open seats in lieu of…
Parents want more educational options. While school choice has grown in recent years, 75 percent of all K–12 students still attend public schools in North Carolina. School choice has come…
The following represents model legislation for North Carolina to establish within-district and cross-district open enrollment.
Jack Fowler writes for National Review Online about Pennsylvania Democrats’ opposition to education options their constituents support. Americans are strongly in favor of charter schools. [The survey] shows that 53…
A new report from the John Locke Foundation explains how state and local policymakers in North Carolina can effectively implement open enrollment, a type of school choice that expands access…
Last week was a pretty good week for those who work to expand educational freedom. The North Carolina Senate voted to override Gov. Josh Stein’s veto of HB 87. That…
Jessica Costescu and Ethan Barton write for the Washington Free Beacon about education mischief in the Lone Star State. A Houston-based education advocacy group fighting to eliminate standardized test requirements…
That’s a new finding from the May Carolina Journal Poll. The poll of 600 likely voters and conducted on May 10–11, 2026, found that 65 percent of respondents “support allowing…
The North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE), the largest professional teacher organization in the state, is hosting a rally today — May 1 — in Raleigh to urge lawmakers to…
How can states raise student achievement at scale? That’s an eternal question, made even more important in an era where education dollars are tight and the competition fierce. Historically, states have…
How and where we educate our children is a freedom that North Carolinians hold dear. However, merely professing it doesn’t make it a reality. Last month, the Carolina Journal poll…