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 […]
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North Carolina Has Money for What...
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 […]
Welfare for the Wealthy: Taxpayer Aler...
North Carolina taxpayers are about to spend over $43 million in the 2024-25 school year on private school tuition vouchers for families of four making more than $259,000/year and nearly $120 million more on families making between $115,000 – $259,000 per year (see list of incomes by family size). The NCGA’s leadership approved this expenditure […]
Expanding Vouchers = More Tests for NC Public School Studen...
North Carolina’s voucher program has been criticized for its lack of accountability. The Opportunity Scholarship and ESA+ programs come with little financial oversight, no curriculum or content standards requirements, no educational or credential requirements for teachers, and no publicly available student performance testing data. Since 1992, NC public school students in grades 3-8 take the […]