Diane Ravitch’s closing remarks after her discussion with Josh Cowen about his new book, The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers, last Saturday contrasted what should be happening to what’s actually happening in North Carolina and across the nation. “We should have smaller class sizes, we should have better paid […]
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 […]
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 […]
