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NC Senate revives open-enrollment study
1+ hour, 19+ min ago (893+ words) A wide-ranging K-12 education bill making its way through the North Carolina Senate would now commission a study on open enrollment, a policy that lets students attend public schools outside their assigned attendance zones. The move comes a year after a…...
State auditor plans to review Opportunity Scholarship Program
2+ hour, 19+ min ago (579+ words) North Carolina Auditor Dave Boliek plans to audit the Opportunity Scholarship Program, the state's popular voucher program that now serves roughly 107, 000 students at a cost of around $587 million a year. Boliek, a first-term Republican, told The Assembly, which first reported…...
Senate completes veto override, opts NC into federal school-choice tax credit
3+ hour, 43+ min ago (710+ words) North Carolina will join a growing list of states that have opted into a new federal school-choice tax-credit program, after the state Senate voted 30-19 on June 3 to override Gov. Josh Stein's veto of'House Bill 87. The party-line vote mirrored the Senate's…...
UNC uses bridge funds for DEI-targeted research
22+ hour, 32+ min ago (815+ words) Shortly after Donald Trump returned to the White House, his administration moved'to restrict National Institutes of Health-funded research'that it views as related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). But at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, several of…...
Resolution to abolish US Dept of Ed on the move in NC House
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (771+ words) A resolution urging Congress to end the United States Department of Education and return its authority to the states passed an initial hurdle in the state House on June 2. The House Education Committee approved'House Joint Resolution 1030'in a voice vote,…...
Clash over Orange Co. school impact fees returns to Appeals Court
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (1644+ words) Listen to this story (15 minutes) A nine-year legal battle over Orange County school impact fees returned Tuesday to North Carolina's second-highest court. Critics urged that court to reverse a trial judge's decisions that led to a 2025 jury verdict favoring the…...
A veto override for school choice, parental rights, and accountability
2+ week, 48+ min ago (382+ words) The vote highlights a fundamental difference between two views of education policy. The status quo asks, "How much more money do we need?" School choice asks, "How do we give families the freedom to find what works?" It also highlights…...
Bill would mandate NC track if principal trainees take the job
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (789+ words) For the first time, North Carolina would have to publicly track whether state-funded trainees aiming to become school principals actually take those jobs, under legislation that cleared a North Carolina House committee on May 19. House Bill 1143, sponsored by state Rep....
NC House overrides Stein veto of federal school choice tax credit bill
2+ week, 1+ day ago (650+ words) The North Carolina House voted 73-46 on May 20 to override Gov. Josh Stein's veto of'House Bill 87, Educational Choice for Children Act, advancing the school choice measure to the Senate, which must concur for it to become law. Rep. Neal Jackson, R-Moore,…...
NC joins lawsuit over health care student loan cuts
2+ week, 1+ day ago (910+ words) North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson joined a coalition of attorneys general from 23 states and the District of Columbia, and the governors of Kentucky and Pennsylvania, in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday against the US Department of Education over a…...