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March 4, 2021

Charter Schools

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Report: Nearly 23% of public school students are “at-risk” for academic failure for 2020-21

March 3, 2021 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — A report that says nearly 23% of public school students and just over 9% of public charter schools students are at-risk for academic failure this school year is headed to lawmakers. The report […]

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DILLINGHAM: Time to leave charter school myths behind

February 10, 2021 Rhonda Dillingham

The elections are over, new policymakers have been sworn in, schools are back in full swing, and the commitment to resolve our former ills and to do new and better things is, for a short […]

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WILLIAMS: Should blacks support destruction of charter schools?

November 10, 2020 Walter E. Williams

The academic achievement gap between black and white students has proven resistant to most educational policy changes. Some say that educational expenditures explain the gap, but is that true? Look at educational per pupil expenditures: […]

Article

DILLINGHAM: 2020 North Carolina Parent Survey

September 18, 2020 Rhonda Dillingham

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced everyone to reexamine every aspect of our lives — from where we work to how we worship to what schools look like for our children. As Executive Director of the […]

Article

Dozens of NC charter schools win grants to enroll and support more underserved students

September 2, 2020 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — North Carolina’s State Board of Education has approved grants that total $17.4 million to 34 charter schools to attract and enroll more underserved and disadvantaged students. The awards are part of the N.C. […]

Article

KAKADELIS: Setting the record straight on charter funding and PPP loans

August 11, 2020 Lindalyn Kakadelis

Recent news coverage skews the facts on charter funding and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. Because some public charter schools received PPP loans and a portion of CARES Act funding, critics accuse them of “double-dipping.” […]

Article

WILLIAMS: Charter schools and their enemies

July 7, 2020 Walter Williams

Dr. Thomas Sowell has just published “Charter Schools and Their Enemies.” He presents actual test scores of students in traditional public schools and charter schools on New York State Education Department’s annual English Language Arts […]

Eamon Queeney—The North State Journal
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Some N.C. Charter Schools left out of CARES Act funding

April 22, 2020 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — At an emergency meeting of the North Carolina State Board of Education, a breakdown of federal funds the state will receive revealed a number of the state’s public charter schools would receive no […]

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DILLINGHAM: Facts not fiction about charter schools 

January 29, 2020 Rhonda Dillingham

If you just skimmed the headlines over the last week, you’d think that the Charter School Annual Report for 2019, recently approved by the NC Charter Schools Advisory Board, heralded the definitive end of our […]

Opinion

DILLINGHAM: Re-segregation and charter schools: Setting the record straight

August 14, 2019 Rhonda Dillingham

The use of the emotionally charged word segregation is misleading and deflects attention away from the positive contribution our charter schools are making to the educational landscape. There is a tremendous difference between choice and […]

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