Day: August 15, 2020

State Board of Education rejects call to expand enrollment in virtual charter schools

photo of child sitting by the table while looking at the imac

By Carolina Journal Staff Raleigh, NC – The N.C. State Board of Education rejected a unanimous recommendation from the state’s Charter School Advisory Board to let 3,800 more students enroll at the state’s two virtual charter academies. The education board’s…

Hootchie Coochie in Chatham County

By N.A. Booko Pittsboro, NC – When I was a child in the mid 1940s, just about everything was forbidden and labeled ‘sinful.’ We were not allowed to have dice in the house for games. Any ‘Devil’s Brew’ was tucked…