Join us for our FREE conference on Saturday, September. 21 in Raleigh, NC! We’ll be joined by other public school scholars and advocates in the fight to protect public education as a public and common good that benefits our society. Public education is the foundation of an informed electorate and democracy itself. If you believe […]
With 78 of 100 North Carolina counties designated as rural (shown in green in the map below) our state can’t afford to neglect the needs of rural communities. Our rural counties include some of the most beautiful areas in the nation, drawing visitors from around the world. They are home to many of North Carolina’s […]
The NC Senate kicked off the short session by highlighting a key spending priority for the leadership: expanding funding for private school vouchers. Senator Marcus posed the question, “Can you justify welfare for the wealthiest?” to Senator Lee during the Senate Appropriations Committee discussion of House Bill 823/S406 on Wednesday. Senator Lee, one of the […]
This week House majority leader Tim Moore announced that a legislative short session priority would be to increase funding for vouchers for the coming year by around $300 million to ensure that the state could fund vouchers for all families who applied. More than half of the applications came from families with incomes too high to have […]
