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John Amanchukwu is Executive Director of Upper Room Christian Academy, a private religious school in southeast Raleigh.  His passion for educating children is much larger than his 6’6″, 280 pound frame.  In fact, his personality, not his size, is what you remember most after meeting him. John observes that many children in southeast Raleigh wouldContinue Reading

New York Post film critic Kyle Smith deserves a Pulitzer Prize for his review of Won’t Back Down. The rousing school-choice movie “Won’t Back Down” is (already!) inspiring teachers’ unions to protest it with its standard dial-a-mob tactics, but the film makes a serious effort to present the other side’s points. This did not haveContinue Reading

A new National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) study written by a few Ivy League economists concluded that students who won a school choice lottery had significantly higher test scores and fewer suspensions and absences than those who did not. In “The Effect of School Choice on Intrinsic Motivation and Academic Outcomes,” Justine Hastings, ChristopherContinue Reading

Today, the Budget and Tax Center (BTC), a project of the NC Justice Center, published a report that pans a bipartisan tax credit scholarship bill, House Bill 1104.  It does not actually quantify how the bill would “decrease available funding for public education” in North Carolina, but it does identify one report that found thatContinue Reading