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In the waning hours of crossover week, the N.C. House passed a bill to open new funding sources and add flexibility to charter schools. House Bill 729 passed the House, 63-52. The bill would make several key changes to the state’s charter schools law. “Charter schools have matured to the point where they’re accepted across the state and have earned their place in our educational system,” said Rep. Larry Yarborough, R-Granville, the bill’s primary sponsor. Under current law, when a charter school dissolves, all net assets of the school go to the local school administrative unit overs...

Nine of the top schools in North Carolina are, technically, schools of choice, according to recently released rankings of the best schools in the country. These include magnet and charter schools, institutions in which parents and students choose and apply for admission. The annual U.S. News rankings include data on nearly 24,000 public high schools in 50 states and the District of Columbia, U.S. News says on its website.  The Early College at Guilford in Greensboro ranked first in the state and 20th in the country. Raleigh Charter High School was second in North Carolina, and 100th in the c...

A Wake County Democrat spoke out against expanding Opportunity Scholarships and pointed to one private school as a reason. “State dollars should go to public schools,” said Rep. Abe Jones, D-Wake. “Private schools will get their money, believe me. They’ll get it from churches, from big donors. We’ve got some private schools in this county. Ravenscroft: Great school. My kids didn’t go there. I went up there and they quoted me tuition — $32,000 to send my kid to Ravenscroft. Both my kids went to Leesville Road High School and middle school. They got great educations.” School-cho...

Education Next At least twenty states have passed or are considering measures related to the science of reading. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, center, and lawmakers gather Wednesday, March 10, 2021, for a news conference to announce that leaders of the state legislature and the governor have reached an agreement to reopen the state’s K-12 public schools to full-time daily instruction in Raleigh. Gov. Cooper recently signed the “Excellent Public Schools Act” into law. If there’s one lesson education policymakers might have learned in the last twenty-five years, it’s that it’s ...

Henderson County (Apr 12, 2021) - RALEIGH — Public school teachers in North Carolina receive an average annual salary of $53,392 for the current school year, according to the latest figures from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction. That puts the state second best in the Southeast — behind Georgia — in average teacher pay.