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Introduction North Carolina spends billions each year on K–12 public education. Is the money being spent wisely? Answering that question involves informal as well as formal processes. Informally, parents render…
Debate over the impact of the Opportunity Scholarship Program was renewed recently when N.C. State researchers Anna Egalite, D.T. Stallings, and Stephen Porter published a study that found “large positive impacts…
Critics of Opportunity Scholarships may have forgotten that the desired end of state education funding is a better educated citizenry, not the establishment of public schools for the sake of…
A new research study offers good news for supporters of North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program. Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina highlights the news: Raleigh, NC – Researchers from…
Carolina Journal reports on how the House budget plan deals with the program that gives low-income families a chance to choose the private school that works best for them. The…
The North Carolina Academic Standards Review Commission published their draft Report of Findings and Recommendations (PDF). The commission will vote on the report later today and deliver it to the…
At their annual Representative Assembly meeting yesterday, the National Education Association (NEA) voted to support the movement to opt out of standardized tests. That should be reason enough for conservatives…
View in your browser. Welcome Standardized testing for public school students concluded last month, but the debate about the state’s accountability system continues. According to the 2014 N.C. Teacher Working…
View in your browser. Welcome The drama over the state testing program never ends. Today, the NC State Board of Education will decide how to deal with cut scores and…
View in your browser. Welcome The recent debate about the quality and necessity of North Carolina’s testing program is long overdue. Let’s jump in with both feet, shall we? Bulletin…
Jennifer Marshall of the Heritage Foundation outlines various objections to the national standards movement in this piece for The Foundry. National standards would also further remove parents from their children?s…
North Carolina's public school leaders are touting rising scores on state tests to prove that things aren't as bad as critics complain. However, the current method of calculating school performance…