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The U.S. House Appropriations Committee voted to cut $40 million from the federal Charter Schools Program, in a major policy shift away from the bipartisan support that charter schools have enjoyed in recent years.
Published: Friday, August 6th, 2021 @ 3:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Tim Taylor could scarcely have imagined when he began attending Arapahoe Charter School in 1997, that he would one day come full circle and send his own sons there decades later.
Published: Friday, July 9th, 2021 @ 8:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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“How do you define freedom in one word? The answer to that is choice,” Tim Taylor, Arapahoe Charter School alumni.
Published: Tuesday, June 29th, 2021 @ 12:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The state Senate’s main education committee has endorsed a bill that would penalize N.C. school systems for late payments to charter schools.
Published: Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021 @ 11:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Claims that public charter schools encourage segregation grow louder every day.
Published: Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021 @ 6:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In the waning hours of crossover week, the N.C. House passed a bill to open new funding sources and add flexibility to charter schools.
Published: Sunday, May 23rd, 2021 @ 6:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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NCACC encourages you to contact your House Members(s) today to ask them to support an amendment to House Bill 729 Charter School Omnibus to eliminate a provision that would give counties authority to provide capital appropriations to charter schools.
Published: Wednesday, May 12th, 2021 @ 9:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Nine of the top schools in North Carolina are, technically, schools of choice, according to recently released rankings of the best schools in the country.
Published: Sunday, May 2nd, 2021 @ 9:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Charter school leaders in North Carolina are urging incoming U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to continue federal support and protection for charters moving forward.
Published: Saturday, April 3rd, 2021 @ 8:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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.
Published: Thursday, April 1st, 2021 @ 8:16 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has selected 17 school districts and 11 charter schools to participate in a pilot program to deploy COVID-19 rapid testing in K-12 public schools where any in-person instruction is happening.
Published: Sunday, December 20th, 2020 @ 4:33 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Public interest in charter schools is higher than ever in North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, October 25th, 2020 @ 9:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Our analysis shows that student cohorts in the charter sector made greater gains from 2005 to 2017 than did cohorts in the district sector.
Published: Sunday, September 13th, 2020 @ 12:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the past decade school choice has expanded across North Carolina.
Published: Monday, August 31st, 2020 @ 3:19 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Recent news coverage skews the facts on charter funding and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans.
Published: Tuesday, August 18th, 2020 @ 2:31 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The N.C. State Board of Education rejected a unanimous recommendation from the state’s Charter School Advisory Board to let 3,800 more students enroll at the state’s two virtual charter academies.
Published: Monday, August 17th, 2020 @ 12:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, thousands of students and parents who signed up on a wait-list for North Carolina’s two virtual public charter schools were denied the ability to enroll.
Published: Monday, August 17th, 2020 @ 12:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I commend the Charter Schools Advisory Board (CSAB) for unanimously recommending to the State Board of Education (SBE) that our two statewide virtual public charter schools be permitted to temporarily expand enrollment.
Published: Friday, August 14th, 2020 @ 11:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The NC Virtual Academy charter school has asked the State Board of Education to grant an enrollment increase of up to 20%.
Published: Monday, June 1st, 2020 @ 11:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lockhart Taylor is out as director of employment security at the N.C. Department of Commerce.
Published: Monday, June 1st, 2020 @ 10:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Mr. Junius Long Capehart, Jr., age 86, a resident of Washington, NC died Wednesday April 29, 2020.
Published: Friday, May 1st, 2020 @ 9:27 am
By: Announcements
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K-12 public schools are closing for two weeks and universities are moving classes online to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2020 @ 5:22 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The John Locke Foundation is kicking off National School Choice Week with a talk from Robert Luddy, the creator of several charter and private schools in North Carolina.
Published: Monday, January 27th, 2020 @ 3:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. State Board of Education is starting the new year with a discussion on Read to Achieve standards and the annual charter school report.
Published: Wednesday, January 8th, 2020 @ 5:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If we are going to fix education in North Carolina, we must be willing to try something new.
Published: Sunday, December 22nd, 2019 @ 10:09 am
By: Lindalyn Kakadelis
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Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants charter schools gone, but several prominent N.C. and national advocates for charter schools say the presidential contender is out of touch with voters.
Published: Friday, October 25th, 2019 @ 3:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The State Board of Elections is reminding colleges and universities, charter schools and state and local governments about upcoming deadlines to submit applications for their IDs to be eligible for use by voters in 2020.
Published: Friday, October 25th, 2019 @ 6:14 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Proponents of charter schools worry the Governor’s Commission on Access to a Sound Basic Education will use the Leandro ruling as a roundabout way to restrict charter schools.
Published: Monday, October 21st, 2019 @ 12:46 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The U.S. Department of Education awarded North Carolina $10 million to bring more educationally disadvantaged students to charter schools, but state constraints on charters may make spending that money a challenge.
Published: Saturday, October 12th, 2019 @ 1:03 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Erik Root, an executive with the Roger Bacon Academy charter school management organization, raises doubts about the claim oft-repeated claims that public charter schools harm their district school competition.
Published: Friday, September 20th, 2019 @ 8:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Actor and stand-up comedian Kevin Hart was released from the hospital on Wednesday after suffering a reported three spinal fractures when his 1970 Plymouth Barracuda crashed on September 1, injuring Hart and the driver.
Published: Sunday, September 15th, 2019 @ 5:41 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Governor’s Commission on Access to a Sound Basic Education wants to talk about charter schools and how they may fit in the debate over how to implement the Leandro ruling.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2019 @ 4:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Comedian and actor Kevin Hart suffered what reports say is a "major back injury" after a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda he recently bought himself for his 40th birthday ran off the road and rolled down an embankment in Calabasas, California early Sunday morning.
Published: Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019 @ 6:08 pm
By: Daily Wire
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