What accounted for the extraordinary net decrease in public school students? A cursory review of the data offers few patterns or common characteristics of note.
The following are data published by the NC Department of Public Instruction. Public School Unit Name Allocations (as of August 14, 2020) Alamance-Burlington Schools $ 9,630,194 Alexander County Schools $ …
Last week, Gov. Roy Cooper pulled $50 million from reserve accounts and funds set aside for summer reading camps (which will not occur this summer for obvious reasons). Districts and…
The bottom line of Ann Doss Helms’ recent WFAE article, “School Shopping Demands More Than Looking At Grades, Families Say,” is that families seldom rely on a single metric or…
According to U.S. News and World Report, four of the top 10 high schools in North Carolina are charter schools. Interestingly, only one Wake County school, Wake NCSU STEM Early…
John Locke Foundation’s Dr. Terry Stoops writes for Carolina Journal’s Daily Journal: As he campaigned for the Republican presidential nomination in the winter of 1999, then-Gov. George W. Bush delivered…
U.S. News and World Report released their annual list of top high schools. The following are the top 20 high schools in North Carolina: Raleigh Charter High School (Charter school)…
Niche.com recently published their ranking of the best public high schools. Congratulations to the charter schools that made the list. Twelve of the top 100 schools were charters, including the…
Last year, charter schools posted a graduation rate of 86.1 percent, compared to the statewide average of 82.5 percent. Here are some interesting facts about charter school graduation rates: The…
According to the NC Department of Public Instruction, North Carolina’s 107 charter schools had a record 50,001 students in average daily membership (ADM) this school year. Charters enrolled 45,388 students…
According to data released today, 85 out of 97 charter schools (88 percent) made AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) under the federal No Child Left Behind law. To make AYP, all…
How did CMS miss enrollment numbers by 44 percent? Why did CMS expect 5200 new students and only get 2900? Well, one way is by failing to account for the…