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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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. […]
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.” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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