By Bea Wunston Pittsboro, NC – Public Charter School Students who reside in Chatham County transfer significant funding out of zoned public schools. Chatham County Schools public school district budgets 10.4% of local expenditures, totaling $4.3 million, for Charter Schools.…
By Donna King, Dallas Woodhouse Raleigh, NC – The N.C. legislature passed the Accountability and Fair Play in Athletics on Wednesday, November 17. The conference report for this bill is one of several policy measures working its way quickly through committees…
By Carolina Journal Staff Raleigh, NC – A federal lawsuit challenging a North Carolina charter school’s dress code will head back to a trial court. That’s after a split Appeals Court panel reversed two key pieces of the original 2019…
By Carolina Journal Staff Raleigh, NC – Some N.C. state lawmakers want local public school systems to pay a penalty if they drag their feet in sending money to charter schools. An amendment adopted in a House committee meeting could…
By John Hood Raleigh, NC – In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, our schools have gone in a variety of directions. Some public-school districts that shut down last spring have never reopened for in-person learning to any significant degree. Others…
By Dr. Terry Stoops Raleigh, NC – There’s always been overwhelming support for programs offering school choice opportunities for disadvantaged and special-needs children assigned to underperforming or unsafe public schools. Modest investments in school choice programs can improve the short-term…
By Dr. Terry Stoops Raleigh, NC – On Tuesday, the N.C. Department of Public Instruction released the average daily membership for the first month of the 2020-21 school year. The data represent the first of 10 student enrollment reports published…
By John Hood Raleigh, NC – Most North Carolina schoolchildren began this academic year trying to learn from home rather than at school. How’s it going so far? Set aside the blame game and partisan theatrics surrounding the issue, and…
By Dr. Terry Stoops Raleigh, NC – According to a report (PDF) published by the NC Department of Public Instruction, 79,575, or 5.2 percent, of North Carolina’s public school students attend a charter school in North Carolina this year. That…