RALEIGH (January 23, 2025) – There is misinformation circulating about whether North Carolina’s taxpayer-funded Opportunity Scholarships enable schools to discriminate against applicants. Let’s set the record straight. The starting aim of the program was to provide low-income families with greater access to private education. But the program has come under increasing scrutiny for enabling private… READ MORE
Vouchers: Next step to dismantle NC public schools
By Kris Nordstrom Senior Policy Analyst, North Carolina Justice Center RALEIGH (January 16, 2025) – If your goal was to dismantle North Carolina’s public school system, how would you do it? Would you starve schools of resources? Real per-student state funding is down 3.8 percent from 2009. North Carolina’s school funding effort (education spending as… READ MORE
Gov. Stein: Open doors of opportunity to every child
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following are excerpts from new Gov. Josh Stein’s inaugural address Saturday where he addressed several education issues.1 RALEIGH (January 11, 2025) – North Carolina Strong means opening the doors of opportunity to every child. There is no better investment in our future than providing excellent pre-K so that every child starts kindergarten,… READ MORE
Inaugural food for thought
RALEIGH (January 16, 2025) – When an Inaugural Ball where you’re expecting more than 2,000 people gets postponed, what do you do with all the food you’ve ordered? Facing the snowstorm that forced postponement of Gov. Josh Stein’s inaugural festivities last weekend, the Junior League of Raleigh and Empire Eats Catering didn’t hesitate with the… READ MORE
UNC Asheville makes hustle plays to reopen
By Eric Johnson ASHEVILLE (January 16, 2025) – On Wednesday afternoon, after more than three months of empty classrooms, UNC Asheville celebrated an extraordinary return for the spring semester. Over a welcome-back dinner of tacos and nachos inside Kimmel Arena, faculty, staff, and students greeted one another, swapped harrowing stories, and settled in to watch… READ MORE
Revere our teachers
By David Rice Executive Director, Public Ed Works WINCHESTER, VA (January 8, 2025) – I’m the son of two teachers – one a highly successful football coach and excellent math teacher, the other a strict home-ec teacher. Rather than The Brady Bunch, I grew up watching game film on our living room wall – forward… READ MORE
Hopes for 2025
RALEIGH (January 2, 2025) – North Carolina’s General Assembly seems to consider itself all-powerful. Well here’s hoping that changes with the new year. Republicans lost their supermajority in the state House by a single seat in November’s elections, giving Gov. Josh Stein slightly more bargaining power with the legislature than his predecessor Roy Cooper had…. READ MORE
Vouchers’ impact on public school funding
RALEIGH (January 2, 2024) – Over the next several weeks, we will publish several short posts to address misinformation circulating about the North Carolina School vouchers called “Opportunity Scholarships.” These vouchers use public, taxpayer funds to pay for private school tuition. First up is the claim that Opportunity Scholarships do not divert funding from public… READ MORE
2024: An onslaught on public education
RALEIGH (December 26, 2024) – 2024 marked a continuing – and at times audacious – eating away at public schools in North Carolina. Governing boards appointed directly or indirectly by state legislators drove away a chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill, asserted control over athletic conference switches, and did away with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs at… READ MORE
Mo Green: ‘Lift back up public education’
RALEIGH (December 19, 2024) – North Carolina just learned that, for the second year in a row, it ranks 48th in the nation for per-pupil funding and 49th for how much of its economy it devotes to public schools. “North Carolina is basically a situation of missed opportunity,” the research director at the Education Law… READ MORE
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