K-12 education

The American Federation for Children (AFC) released its annual school choice poll.  Overall, it shows that school choice is popular among most subgroups.  According to the poll, support is particularly strong in the African American and Latino communities.  Here are a few items of note: School choice support overall: …

On Tuesday, January 21, the parties in the decades-old Leandro lawsuit received a court order from Judge David Lee. Carolina Journal’s Lindsay Marchello explains: Lee issued a 34-page order Tuesday, Jan. 21, during a meeting with the parties in the decades-old case. Leandro, a court battle that started in 1994, cemented the…

John Trump reports for Carolina Journal Online on new Publisher Amy Cooke, who is also the new CEO of the John Locke Foundation. Watch Donna Martinez’s interview with Amy Cooke. Terry Stoops’ Daily Journal says it would be unwise at best to allow one consultant’s report to…

In the 2020 update to Fault Lines: America’s Most Segregating School District Borders, EdBuild researchers write, In a similar vein, consider North Carolina, an economically diverse state that might be expected to contain some steeply segregating school district borders. But North Carolina has few of…

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, which challenges the use of the state’s Blaine amendment to torpedo a tax credit scholarship law. Blaine amendments prohibit the state from directly or indirectly allocating government dollars to faith-based organizations or programs.  North Carolina…

Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online on the latest court order in the long-running Leandro school funding court case. John Hood’s Daily Journal urges reforms that would boost access to affordable housing.

In “Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America’s Public Schools,” Diane Ravitch calls the John Locke Foundation (and other free-market groups) “disrupters.”  That is flattering.  We are disrupters of the status quo that she champions. (By the way,…

One in five of North Carolina’s school-aged kids is educated outside a traditional public school classroom. Join us Monday when we host entrepreneur and school-choice advocate Bob Luddy. Lundy’s presentation is part of National School Choice Week.