Gay students and children from gay families barred from private Christian...
The Star News in Wilmington reports that Myrtle Grove Christian School, which is eligible to receive taxpayer-funded private school vouchers beginning with the 2014-15 school year, will also begin...
View ArticleKey supporter of private school vouchers says schools barring gays should not...
Rep. Marcus Brandon, a key proponent of private school voucher legislation that made it through the General Assembly last summer, told NC Policy Watch that private Christian schools adopting policies...
View ArticleDebunking the pro-voucher spin
If you haven’t already done so, check out today’s edition of the Fitzsimon File in which Chris highlights the most recent cynical efforts of anti-government crusaders to cloak their efforts to...
View ArticleYour tax dollars at work…promoting specific religious beliefs
As an excellent essay in this morning’s edition of Raleigh’s News & Observer by veteran education policy expert Greg Malhoit makes clear, North Carolina is on the verge of commencing a long,...
View ArticleCharter school’s failure a testament to inadequate standards and oversight
It’s funny and sad how humans have to constantly relearn basic lessons of history. The latest exhibit here in North Carolina comes from the world of education where, once again, we’ve been reminded of...
View ArticleLuncheon will explore school voucher case, preview Supreme Court argument
Mark your calendar for the next N.C. Policy Watch Crucial Conversation luncheon on Tuesday, February 10: “The constitutional challenge to school vouchers: Where do things stand? What happens next?”...
View ArticleState dollars to teach creationism? Luncheon to explore whether State Supreme...
If it strikes you as odd and troubling that North Carolina has started bestowing “failing” grades on public schools even as it writes checks to unaccountable private schools which teach that humans and...
View ArticleOp-ed tells it like it is on school vouchers
In case you missed it the other day, Asheville writer Martin Dyckman published an excellent essay in the Asheville Citizen-Times that explained the real deal with North Carolina’s toxic and troubling...
View ArticleWhat the Right really has in mind for public education
If you still harbor any doubts about what the American far right has in mind when it comes to the future of public education, there’s a helpful reminder in Texas right now where ideologues are...
View ArticlePrivate Christian school receiving $100,000+ in publicly funded school...
A private Christian school in Fayetteville that has received more than $100,000 in taxpayer-funded school vouchers is now the subject of a criminal investigation into allegations that the head of...
View ArticleSex offender who worked at Christian voucher school charged, head of school...
A registered sex offender who worked at a Fayetteville private Christian school that has received more than $100,000 in publicly-funded school vouchers is now facing criminal charges—and the head of...
View ArticleState lawmaker says he expects House education committee to mull...
One day after N.C. Policy Watch reported the story of a voucher-eligible Lee County private school’s arguably discriminatory admissions policy, N.C. Rep. Ed Hanes Jr., D-Forsyth, says he expects the...
View ArticleNew report points to segregation in private schools
Last month, we reported on the widening racial and economic divisions in North Carolina’s two largest school systems, despite ample evidence that high concentrations of impoverished children in any...
View ArticleNorth Carolina has spent $12 million on private school vouchers this year
The Citizen-Times of Asheville is reporting this week that North Carolina has spent about $12 million this academic year, out of a budgeted $17.6 million, on the state’s controversial private school...
View ArticleRep. Ed Hanes, controversial Winston-Salem Democrat, talks working both sides...
Rep. Ed Hanes is used to controversy by now. The Winston-Salem Democrat, an outspoken education reformer, has a reputation for cross-party alliances. Now in his second term in Raleigh, Hanes has been a...
View ArticleIn session’s final hours, teacher background check bill advancing in N.C....
With the N.C. General Assembly winding down its short session, lawmakers are hoping to speed though the final bills on their agenda Friday, one of which sets a new statewide background check standard...
View ArticleDirector of voucher-eligible private school in Raleigh accused of sex with...
According to ABC 11, the director of a Raleigh-area private school, which is eligible for publicly-funded vouchers from North Carolina, has been charged with having sex with children. From ABC 11’s...
View ArticleUnder new federal education law, more public dollars may be bound for private...
At Policy Watch, we’ve reported extensively on the new responsibilities entrusted to state education leaders under last year’s Every Student Succeeds Act, the federal update to the long-unpopular No...
View ArticleTrump’s pick for education secretary has no background in public schools
Much has been made of President-elect Trump’s controversial picks for his still-forming Cabinet. Now, a fascinating report today from Education Week‘s Alyson Klein is only likely to fan the flames for...
View ArticleA play-by-play on Betsy DeVos’ remarkable, combative confirmation as...
The Senate confirmation hearings for President-elect Trump’s cabinet nominees have been, for lack of a better word, wild. No doubt the same applies to Trump’s nominee to lead the nation’s public...
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