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 […]
Imagine a school where leadership prioritizes families’ needs while garnering teachers’ input in all of its decision-making. Sounds like a dream, but it is, in fact, a reality in the form of a K-8 public […]
RALEIGH — With a semester nearly under their belts, N.C.’s education leadership is taking time to recognize National Education Week. Gov. Roy Cooper issued a declaration Monday and dispatched some of his leadership team to […]
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