Policy Pizza: What is School Choice? | Eastern NC Now

Kaitlyn Shepherd, policy analyst for the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, gives us a concise overview of the choices parents have in the education of their children in North Carolina.

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    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the John Locke Foundation. The author of this post is Greg de Deugd.



    Kaitlyn Shepherd, policy analyst for the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, gives us a concise overview of the choices parents have in the education of their children in North Carolina. She dispels the myths surrounding school choice, and details some of the policy areas that can support greater school choice and help make North Carolina a leader in this important movement centered on the success of future generations.

    Special thanks to Ruckus Pizza of Apex

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As School Choice is beginning to take shape in North Carolina: What is your position on what it should evolve into?
  School Choice is only a distraction from the promise of real public education.
  School Choice, as it evolves into its best model to serve the public' s education needs, this benefit will provide choices outside of the historic construct supporting the public school monopoly.
  School Choice - I cannot see how it serves the Education Industry.
241 total vote(s)     What's your Opinion?

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