The N.C. Supreme Court will decide the constitutionality of the state's fledgling Opportunity Scholarship Program, bypassing the Court of Appeals.
Published: Tuesday, October 14th, 2014 @ 5:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Parents of nearly 1,900 students who had been awarded Opportunity Scholarships that were ruled unconstitutional last month by Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood are sending their children to private schools anyway.
Published: Wednesday, September 10th, 2014 @ 12:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The move Thursday by a Wake County Superior Court judge to strike down the state's fledgling Opportunity Scholarships program is seen as a short-term setback by supporters of the private tuition vouchers.
Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2014 @ 6:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. General Assembly's biennial short session opens Wednesday. North Carolina does not have statutory session limits, so the session will last as long as necessary to finish business.
Published: Wednesday, May 14th, 2014 @ 7:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Liberal activists may fume, and left-wing editorialists may grind their teeth, but legislative leaders are going to defend energetically their 2013 opportunity scholarship bill against lawsuits by the teacher union and other special interests.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 12:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Parents of students seeking to benefit from the state's Opportunity Scholarships program must wait for the N.C. Court of Appeals to consider a lawsuit filed on their behalf. Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood denied motions made by defendants to delay his preliminary injunction preventing the schol
Published: Saturday, March 22nd, 2014 @ 6:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood issued an injunction Friday that paused North Carolina's new Opportunity Scholarship Program, a private school voucher program for low-income families. At that point, the North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority had received over 4,700 applications...
Published: Wednesday, March 5th, 2014 @ 6:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Rev. William Barber, president of the NC NAACP and initiator of the Moral Monday protests, continued his attack Tuesday on what he called "a monster voter suppression bill" and likened efforts to award Opportunity Scholarships to children from low-income families to segregationist actions of...
Published: Friday, February 28th, 2014 @ 12:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Supporters of North Carolina's fledgling Opportunity Scholarships program see the motion granted Friday by a Superior Court judge placing the plan on hold as little more than a temporary setback. Advocates of the 2013 measure, which would have provided up to 2,400 low-income public school...
Published: Wednesday, February 26th, 2014 @ 4:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Few pieces of education legislation filed this year have been subject to more debate than House Bill 944: Opportunity Scholarship Act.
Published: Tuesday, June 25th, 2013 @ 4:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Money to provide opportunity scholarships -- or school vouchers -- to children from lower income families has made it into the House budget...
Published: Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 @ 11:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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House Speaker Pro Tem Paul "Skip" Stam proposes to spend $90 million the next two years providing "equal opportunity scholarship grants" to low-income students...
Published: Sunday, April 14th, 2013 @ 9:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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