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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…
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…
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…
North Carolina remains one of the worst states in the country when it comes to promoting choice among traditional public schools (i.e., not counting charter schools), according to a 2025…
Introduction North Carolina has more than 80,500 miles of state-owned highways, more than any other state besides Texas. Unlike Texas, which owns one-fourth of the 322,000 miles of roads in…
North Carolina finds itself in a four-way tie for last place when it comes to having strong open enrollment policies that improve access to traditional public schools. A new study…
Conservatives don’t often look to California as a model for sound education policy. Nevertheless, there are lessons that North Carolina can — and should — learn from the school finance…
Inter- and intra-district open-enrollment policies let parents choose a traditional public school other than the one to which their child has been assigned. Unlike most other states, North Carolina has…
A new report released by the Reason Foundation finds that just a small fraction of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds directed to state and local governments has been…
That annual treasure trove of data from North Carolina public schools, Highlights of the North Carolina Public School Budget, 2021 was recently released. Highlights as the document is frequently called,…
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Corey DeAngelis Director of School Choice at the Reason Foundation and Executive Director of the Education Freedom Institute, rebuffs the teacher union claim that it’s…