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Policy choices in response to the pandemic increased parental demand for more educational options
Published: Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 @ 2:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When I first received word that Gov. Roy Cooper had signed a proclamation celebrating National School Choice Week, I believed it was a hoax.
Published: Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022 @ 11:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper has been a stalwart opponent of school choice since securing the governor’s office in 2016.
Published: Thursday, January 20th, 2022 @ 7:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A new poll from a statewide school-choice advocacy group shows that nearly two-thirds of likely general election voters in North Carolina support the Opportunity Scholarship Program.
Published: Wednesday, December 15th, 2021 @ 1:16 pm
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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Slow school reopening, dropping enrollment, and union influence on health policy may mean new energy for the school choice movement
Published: Monday, May 10th, 2021 @ 2:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a rule banning religious private schools from participating in scholarship programs.
Published: Thursday, July 9th, 2020 @ 11:44 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Education is already a huge issue in North Carolina and Gov. Roy Cooper and Democrats are intent on making it even bigger. Cooper and his party are gambling that the state budget impasse will keep the issue squarely on the front page of North Carolina policy and politics.
Published: Friday, January 17th, 2020 @ 11:30 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Views on initiatives or implementation may differ, but conceptually, school choice garners broad bipartisan support. It’s time to push past political polarization in rhetoric and debate. Ideas, not ideology, are winning the day.
Published: Thursday, October 24th, 2019 @ 8:24 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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I grew up in the “separate but equal” school era, although we knew Black schools weren’t equal. The 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education, ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
Published: Thursday, July 25th, 2019 @ 7:53 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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At the heart of Tuesday’s school choice rally, organized by the North Carolina Association for Public Charter Schools, was a celebration of student achievement through educational opportunity
Published: Wednesday, January 24th, 2018 @ 12:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yesterday, on February 7th, Betsy DeVos was confirmed by the Senate as US Secretary of Education in President Trump's administration.
Published: Wednesday, February 8th, 2017 @ 11:59 pm
By: Russell Allen
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June Atkinson's Cathedral Stands
Published: Tuesday, January 17th, 2017 @ 3:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Conservative icons such as Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, and Milton Friedman would have appreciated some of the North Carolina General Assembly's key accomplishments in 2013. That's the assessment of John Locke Foundation President John Hood, who discussed the issue with Donna Martinez for...
Published: Wednesday, March 5th, 2014 @ 2:42 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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The number of students attending public charter schools continues to rise, and Durham Public Schools is ranked 21st nationally, the only district in North Carolina with 10 percent or more of its students in charter schools.
Published: Monday, November 19th, 2012 @ 5:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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