School Choice and Charters

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (105+ words) The post Another North Carolina HBCU shatters enrollment record as Black colleges surge appeared first on HBCU Gameday. North Carolina Central University has crossed the 10,000-student mark for the first time, adding another major enrollment milestone to a growing list…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (524+ words) North Carolina’s charter school association has brought in a consulting firm to write quality standards for the state’s virtual charter academies, schools the state charter office said last month none of its staff has experience evaluating. Nineteen remote charter academies…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (583+ words) More than 3.7 million North Carolina taxpayers will be eligible to claim a new federal tax credit for donations to K-12 scholarship organizations when the program launches in 2027, according to a state-by-state analysis released Sept. 9 by the American Federation for Children (AFC)…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1655+ words) This includes the title, byline, content, and tracking pixel required for republishing this story. North Carolina public schools showed progress on school and student performance during the 2025-26 school year, according to new data released by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (199+ words) (The Center Square) – Four-year cohort graduation of North Carolina’s public school students for 2025-26 is 88.8%, up from the previous year’s record 87.8%. Seeking to reach a “Best in Nation Measure” as identified in the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’s strategic plan,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (787+ words) Public school systems in other states are already lining up to tap into funds from the Trump administration’s new federal school choice tax credit. But in North Carolina, districts could be left behind unless they begin to act soon. The…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1070+ words) Members of the North Carolina Blue Ribbon Commission on Public Education pushed back Aug. 31 on a draft set of recommendations they said was too vague to act on, demanding a clearer teacher-pay proposal and leaving the panel’s planned September vote…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (660+ words) North Carolina’s charter school association is telling member schools to hold off on adopting a new crisis-hotline posting policy after two schools reported that a state helpline named in the budget appears not to serve callers under 18. The state agency…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (643+ words) A Statesville pastor and his family took center stage at the White House on Aug. 24, as President Donald Trump marked the start of the school year by touting what he called “the largest ever expansion of school choice” in American…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (650+ words) Charter schools in states with expansive school choice initiatives are losing students to those programs, and many of their leaders expect the losses to continue, according to a new survey from the American Enterprise Institute. The report, released Aug. 19, surveyed…...