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A new study shows that scaling school choice is more cost-effective in improving public school student performance than simply increasing spending on public schools.
Published: Friday, March 13th, 2026 @ 2:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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by Rev. Mark Creech
Published: Monday, October 6th, 2025 @ 9:05 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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That’s the question Marguerite Roza of Georgetown University’s Edunomics Lab sought to answer in a recent webinar on the topic.
Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024 @ 12:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new report on Florida’s K-12 education system describes the main tenets of Critical Social Justice, discusses how this ideology finds its way into K-12 schools, and documents how Florida has worked to reduce its spread
Published: Tuesday, November 28th, 2023 @ 12:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new ad from a national watchdog group compares North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper to former Alabama Democrat governor George Wallace, a prominent segregationist.
Published: Friday, October 20th, 2023 @ 12:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Opponents of school choice claim that private schools are unaccountable because they don’t have to satisfy every testing mandate required of traditional public schools, yet private schools are subject to the highest standard of accountability: parents
Published: Thursday, June 8th, 2023 @ 11:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Refusing to look inward, opponents of school choice insist the only thing needed to improve public schools is more money
Published: Wednesday, May 31st, 2023 @ 5:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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School choice would continue its growth trajectory in North Carolina under a budget passed by the House April 6 in a bipartisan vote of 78 to 38.
Published: Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023 @ 10:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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An overwhelming majority of Americans support school choice, which would allow parents to decide where their children are educated.
Published: Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 @ 3:12 pm
By: Daily Wire
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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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Lawmakers have introduced a bill in the North Carolina House that would create a universal Education Savings Account to allow parents to pay directly for approved non-public educational expenses for their children.
Published: Friday, April 14th, 2023 @ 5:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A new Civitas Poll finds plenty of good news for school choice advocates
Published: Saturday, February 11th, 2023 @ 3:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Between 2019 and 2022, female students generally recorded larger drops in proficiency rates than their male counterparts
Published: Tuesday, October 4th, 2022 @ 8:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina is among states that have taken a rightward shift in policy outcomes since 2010.
Published: Monday, September 12th, 2022 @ 1:15 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Court of Appeals will decide whether a lawsuit challenging North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship program will stay with a single trial judge or move to a three-judge panel.
Published: Tuesday, June 14th, 2022 @ 7:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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New orders block all activity in a lawsuit challenging Opportunity Scholarships.
Published: Monday, May 9th, 2022 @ 11:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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During his oversight of the Leandro case, Judge David Lee failed to scrutinize the comprehensive remedial plan that bears his signature
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 @ 2:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The legal fight over North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program focuses now on whether a single judge or a three-judge panel should hear the case. Lawyers for the state and the scholarships’ parent supporters have filed new briefs supporting the three-judge option.
Published: Saturday, April 2nd, 2022 @ 12:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Court of Appeals has agreed to block further pretrial discovery in a lawsuit challenging the state’s Opportunity Scholarship Program. The court granted a request from parents defending the school choice program.
Published: Saturday, March 26th, 2022 @ 1:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Two more documents filed late Friday with the N.C. Court of Appeals take aim at legal tactics employed by opponents of the Opportunity Scholarship Program. The filings also criticize the trial judge who has been overseeing a lawsuit challenging the program.
Published: Monday, March 21st, 2022 @ 11:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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For all their virtue-signaling about caring for the poor, the progressive game plan to help the poor has an abysmal track record.
Published: Sunday, February 27th, 2022 @ 12:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Do growing numbers of minority voters aid the expansion of parental choice in North Carolina?
Published: Saturday, February 26th, 2022 @ 8:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The recent Civitas School Choice Poll highlights the growing popularity of school choice in North Carolina and the public’s desire for expanded educational options.
Published: Saturday, February 19th, 2022 @ 12:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In recognition of National School Choice Week, the John Locke Foundation asked 600 likely general election voters to assess the condition of education in North Carolina and opine on the state’s popular public and private school choice programs.
Published: Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 @ 7:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Those straining noises you heard yesterday were the eyebrows of North Carolina school choice advocates being raised in justified skepticism.
Published: Saturday, January 29th, 2022 @ 12:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two of the Tar Heel State’s school choice programs have saved taxpayers between $74.1 million and $154.3 million through fiscal 2018
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 8:05 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Critics of educational freedom increasingly use the threat of privatization to shine a negative spotlight on school choice programs.
Published: Friday, January 14th, 2022 @ 12:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Many North Carolinians breathed a sigh of relief last week when the GOP-led legislature and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper came to terms on a budget for the new biennium.
Published: Monday, December 6th, 2021 @ 3:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Accountability for publicly funded school choice programs should primarily come through parent empowerment, not regulatory overreach. That’s the assessment of a new report from Notre Dame Law School scholar Nicole Stelle Garnett published by the Manhattan Institute.
Published: Thursday, November 11th, 2021 @ 10:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's budget is finally out and it's a doozy.
Published: Saturday, April 10th, 2021 @ 2:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper’s latest two-year budget plan would spend far too much money, setting North Carolina’s state government on an unsustainable future path.
Published: Friday, March 26th, 2021 @ 7:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The coronavirus pandemic has created a window of opportunity for school choice, says a panel of experts at a John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury.
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2021 @ 10:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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