School choice: Tuesday date for three pivotal bills [NC]

The Center Square ^ | 4/28/23 | Victor Skinner

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With an estimated 77,000 on charter school waiting lists, lawmakers in the North Carolina House of Representatives on Tuesday will consider several bills designed to open up school choice for families.

The House Education Committee will hear three bills that could provide more school options for North Carolina families: one to expand Opportunity Scholarships, another to streamline charter school approvals, and a third to allow open enrollment in public schools.

House Bill 823, known as Choose Your School, Choose Your Future, is sponsored by top House Republicans including Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, to expand Opportunity Scholarships to all students through a tier-based system based on income.

The program is currently restricted to low- and moderate-income families to cover private school tuition and other educational expenses. Parents for Educational Freedom President Mike Long contends the expansion would mark “an incredible step toward funding students over systems in North Carolina,” while the state’s teachers association is lobbying against the bill.

[CFW]

Important issues being voted on in NC next week.

[FLT-bird]

I’m assuming the state legislature will have to shove this one down Cooper’s throat over a veto just like it did the repeal of the Jim Crow pistol purchase permits. Do it.

This is another very important issue. School choice needs to be right up there at the top of the agenda for Republicans. Enact school choice and you don’t need to worry all that much about leftist indoctrination or tranny indoctrination in the public schools. They’ll be gutted, and their ability to screw up the next generation will largely be taken away from them already as parents pull their kids out of failing public schools and put them in much better private schools.

[GingisK]

Can anyone explain to me how charter schools are going to avoid the same degradation as the others?