What’s in the House education budget? It’s not perfect, but there are some pretty good things, writes JLF’s Terry Stoops. His biggest thumbs-up goes to this:
By far, the most exciting part of the House budget is the plan to create the Joint Legislative Task Force on Education Finance Reform. While most folks are indifferent to the creation of a task force to study education funding, the prospect of North Carolina abandoning its confusing allotment system for a student-based funding formula is the first step in ensuring that parents and other taxpayers know how many state dollars are allocated to each of our public schools. And attaching the funding to the student may accelerate the expansion of public and private school choice by making the child, not the institution or its employees, the focus of the state’s education funding system.
Read Terry’s complete analysis here.
