The State Board of Education’s accountability task force agreed last week to flag fewer schools for state intervention. Most members also favored dropping the state’s own low-performing label and using only the federal one. The task force met Oct. 15 in…
Published 5:10 am Monday, October 19, 2026 By Julie Olson, Special to the Tyler Morning Telegraph Chapel Hill High School earned academic distinction designations from the Texas Education Agency in science and social studies for the 2025-26 school year, recognizing strong student performance and…
Policy Analyst for the Center for Effective Education, Research Editor, John Locke Foundation School choice has been receiving a lot of attention lately. Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of the Treasury released regulations that provided some much-needed clarification on how…
North Carolina ties for third in the nation in a new 50-state ranking that scores states on gender policy, parental rights, teacher unions, and foreign influence in public schools. Defending Education released its Rankings on Integrity in State Education, or…
North Carolina taxpayers could give about $810 million a year to scholarship groups under the new federal Education Freedom Tax Credit if one in 10 eligible donors takes part, according to updated estimates from the American Federation for Children (AFC) Growth Fund.
Students with disabilities make up a larger share of private school choice programs nationally than of public school enrollment, according to a report released Oct. 8 by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). The report counts 5,723 North Carolina students in the state’s…
John Fund writes for National Review Online about the consequences of bad public policies in Chicago and Illinois. Ken Griffin, hedge fund manager and CEO of Citadel, is donating $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University, most of which is intended to…
Nearly all schoolchildren in at least 30 states can apply for a new federal scholarship next year to help pay for private school, homeschooling and other educational expenses, according to regulations proposed Thursday by the Trump administration. The first national school…
The United States Treasury Department released proposed regulations Oct. 1 for the Education Freedom Tax Credit, the federal program North Carolina opted into in June when the General Assembly overrode Gov. Josh Stein’s veto. The regulations spell out the requirements for…
School ranks #2 in the Charlotte area and #3 in North Carolina CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- British International School of Charlotte (BISC) has been recognized as one of North Carolina's top private schools in Niche's 2027 Best Schools Rankings, earning a ranking of…
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