On July 1, the U.S. Department of Education announced the new rules for the federal Charter Schools Program.
Published: Friday, July 15th, 2022 @ 11:32 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Tennessee GOP Governor Bill Lee is fighting back against the rampant leftism purveyed in the educational community across the country by inviting famed conservative institution Hillsdale College
Published: Sunday, April 17th, 2022 @ 6:38 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Public Schools in N.C. Lose Students to Private, Charter, Home Schools
Published: Monday, February 7th, 2022 @ 1:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A federal lawsuit challenging a North Carolina charter school’s dress code will head back to a trial court.
Published: Monday, August 16th, 2021 @ 4:06 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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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 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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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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Tom Campbell's opinion piece, "We are re-segregating our schools," blames charter schools for "re-segregating" district schools. Using the term segregation, associated with the Jim Crow era ending 65 years ago, is intentional.
Published: Friday, August 9th, 2019 @ 5:30 am
By: Lindalyn Kakadelis
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North Carolina continues to see growth in homeschooling, charter schools, and private schools, a recent report from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction says.
Published: Tuesday, July 16th, 2019 @ 10:21 am
By: Carolina Journal
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While initial rulings in the Leandro case had nothing directly to do with charter schools, recent discussions are bringing the traditional public school alternative into the conversation.
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 11:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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At the end of the 2010-11 school year, the state had 99 charter schools that enrolled around 41,200 children, and thousands of children remained on waitlists, hoping to be among the lucky few selected in an enrollment lottery.
Published: Friday, May 24th, 2019 @ 4:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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