The growth of OSP highlights the inequities and inefficiencies in how North Carolina funds public schools. Any real solution will have to remedy those problems. A new report from the State Board of…
People overwhelmingly favor parents being in charge of their children's education, and Opportunity Scholarships had strong, bipartisan support. These findings should spur legislators to help parents by giving them more…
1. Cooper still hates vouchers. 2. Cooper will not rule out ordering all public schools to adopt a full-time remote learning plan…
Weep for the children who are — for now at least — trapped in traditional classrooms that do not serve their needs. And it’s all thanks to North Carolina progressives…
Does Article IX, Sec. 6 of the North Carolina Constitution render the state’s Opportunity Scholarship (i.e., school choice) program unconstitutional? This is an argument put forward by opponents of the…
… whether she meant to or not. From this morning’s Carolina Journal Online lead story by Barry Smith: “It’s not the individual, it’s the society as a whole, where it…
Writing in the Herald-Sun, Darrell Allison, president of Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina, makes his case for empowering North Carolina parents with more options for where their children…
View in your browser. Welcome According to Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson, schools that accept voucher students should be subject to the same accountability measures as district schools. It…
Today’s Wall Street Journal has an appalling bit of propaganda by teacher union boss Randi Weingarten, “Markets Aren’t the Education Solution.” It’s heavy with red herrings and strawman arguments. Don…
Judge Manning is frustrated here that failing schools are not making more progress and so am I. Unfortunately, his orders will have little lasting impact on a Soviet style, centrally…
President-Elect Obama and his wife, Michelle, have chosen Sidwell Friends School for their two daughters, reports the Associated Press (emphasis is mine): Sidwell Friends beat out another elite school, Georgetown…
Well, that was different. Had all three candidates who are on the ballot debate and the world didn’t end. Still, some surprises: Perdue: Actually started out strong on the “role…