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eliminate the waitlist for the state’s Opportunity Scholarships voucher program
Published: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024 @ 12:38 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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RALEIGH: Over the past few weeks, Governor Roy Cooper has continued to sound the alarm on dangerous Republican plans that would gut funding for public education and expand private school vouchers so anyone – even a millionaire – can get taxpayer money for their children’s private school tuition.
Published: Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 @ 9:24 am
By: Governor's Office
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Kris Nordstrom is at it again.
Published: Thursday, August 17th, 2023 @ 9:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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How do voucher programs impact district achievement, segregation, or district per pupil expenditures?
Published: Thursday, December 29th, 2022 @ 3:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Pennsylvania Lt. Governor and Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman sends at least one of his children to a private school with a five-figure tuition despite opposing voucher programs, according to a Friday report from The Washington Free Beacon.
Published: Thursday, September 8th, 2022 @ 9:27 am
By: Daily Wire
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Defenders of North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarship Program want a three-judge panel to hear a lawsuit challenging the voucher program.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 10:44 am
By: Carolina Journal
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EdChoice released its rankings of states based on Educational Choice Share, the proportion of all K–12 students who are enrolled in an education savings account, school voucher, or tax-credit scholarship program.
Published: Monday, September 14th, 2020 @ 11:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Wednesday, August 5, 2020, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced grants through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program.
Published: Thursday, August 6th, 2020 @ 10:32 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina’s largest teacher organization is suing to kill a program helping low-income families send their children to private schools.
Published: Tuesday, July 28th, 2020 @ 11:44 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Between 2002 and 2017, Florida expanded its private school voucher program, and according to a new NBER study, children who participated in the program were the big winners.
Published: Friday, March 6th, 2020 @ 1:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Debate over the impact of the Opportunity Scholarship Program was renewed recently when N.C. State researchers Anna Egalite, D.T. Stallings, and Stephen Porter published a study that found “large positive impacts associated with voucher usage in North Carolina.”
Published: Saturday, July 14th, 2018 @ 12:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Enough is enough, say school voucher advocates who want a three-judge Superior Court panel to dismiss Gov. Roy Cooper's lawsuit against North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship program
Published: Friday, February 9th, 2018 @ 2:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to interact with undergraduate and doctoral students at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Education
Published: Monday, October 24th, 2016 @ 4:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new study from the University of Arkansas finds that crime rates among students in private school voucher programs are lower than those among students who attend traditional public schools.
Published: Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016 @ 1:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Attorneys on both sides of the voucher issue made their case on Tuesday to the state's highest court, with Supreme Court justices considering a challenge to a Superior Court decision stating that the Opportunity Scholarship Program, offering tuition vouchers to low-income parents who removed...
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 11:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Public schools work for Delicia Hare's 14-year-old son, but not so well for her 8-year-old son Christian Houston. Hare uses the $4,200 voucher she gets from the state's Opportunity Scholarship Program to offset some of the costs of sending Christian to Raleigh Christian Academy. She homeschooled...
Published: Friday, February 20th, 2015 @ 2:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A group advocating for low-income families to benefit from a tuition voucher program that's tied up in court is using the Internet and social media to tell the stories of parents who want to take advantage of the options offered by the Opportunity Scholarships.
Published: Sunday, April 13th, 2014 @ 8:20 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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Momma always said you can learn more listening than you can speaking, so now that a judge has called a temporary halt to North Carolina's school voucher program let's spend time in listening to both sides of this issue. And the best way to get information is to ask questions.
Published: Saturday, March 1st, 2014 @ 5:01 am
By: Tom Campbell
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In this week's CommenTerry, I examine school choice from a few different angles, mostly right angles, but angles nonetheless.
Published: Thursday, February 13th, 2014 @ 12:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state's largest teachers organization along with the left-of-center N.C. Justice Center have filed a lawsuit challenging the private school voucher program passed by the 2013 General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Pat McCrory.
Published: Saturday, December 14th, 2013 @ 10:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Remember Where's Waldo? Imagine for a moment that he had the word "privatization" stitched on his colorful little cap, and see if you can spot him...
Published: Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 @ 12:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A voucher program is likely to offer North Carolina the most transparent, easy-to-understand school choice option the state could consider this year. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report offers that assessment. Vouchers also require no tax code changes.
Published: Friday, April 12th, 2013 @ 11:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Few North Carolinians realize that the state has extensive educational options for preschoolers and college students but little for children in the "middle" -- the 1.5 million students in traditional K-12 public schools.
Published: Tuesday, October 9th, 2012 @ 7:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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