This week on Family Policy Matters host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes back Mike Long President of Parents for Educational Freedom North Carolina to discuss North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship and the impact that it has [... more]

The races for president governor and U S Senate have been dominating N C headlines But voters are making other important decisions in the next week Rick Henderson Carolina Journal editor-in-chief assesses recent developments in races for offices such as lieutenant governor superintendent of public instruction state treasurer and labor commissioner North Carolina's popular Opportunity Scholarship program faces a new legal challenge Plaintiffs challenging the scholarships are tied to the N C Association of Educators teachers union Corey DeAngelis director of school choice at the libertarian Reason Foundation analyzed the suit during a recent online forum North Carolina's junior U [... more]

Debate about the COVID- pandemic has featured plenty of data involving case numbers deaths and hospitalizations Dig into the details and you learn that the numbers might not be as useful as they first appear They might even portray a misleading picture Jon Sanders John Locke Foundation director of regulatory studies discusses key aspects of his research into key COVID- numbers Americans are paying much more attention to China these days largely because of that country's role in the pandemic Part of the discussion involves American trade with China Scott Lincicome senior fellow in economic studies at the Cato Institute [... more]

This week on Family Policy Matters host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Mike Long from PEFNC to discuss what is at stake for school choice in our state and how the pandemic has impacted education and the school choice movement [... more]

A Union County judge has approved a deal calling on the state of North Carolina to boost education spending by more than million a year It's the first stage of a plan that would lead to billions of dollars of new spending The money is tied to the long-running Leandro lawsuit Terry Stoops John Locke Foundation vice president for research and director of education studies analyzes the latest developments in the quarter-century-old Leandro case The N C Association of Educators teachers union is leading a lawsuit designed to kill the state's Opportunity Scholarship program But three families are going to [... more]

Uncertainty about the - academic year in N C public schools is sparking renewed interest in educational alternatives The N C Senate's Republican leader recently used unease about public school schedules as a reason to promote the Opportunity Scholarship Program Those scholarships help low-income families send their children to private schools Terry Stoops John Locke Foundation vice president for research and director of education studies assesses the current climate for school choice in North Carolina Speaking of school choice the U S Supreme Court recently delivered a victory for advocates of education options Mike Long president of Parents for Educational [... more]

Most school-age children are back in classrooms after summer break Their families recently encountered the annual trip to the store to buy new school supplies Terry Stoops John Locke Foundation vice president for research and resident scholar crunches the numbers to determine how much parents teachers and state taxpayers spend to equip kids for a new year of school Advocates of North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship school voucher program recently touted results of a study from N C State University It documented the vouchers' positive large and statistically significant benefits for low-income students Two of the key NCSU researchers assistant professor [... more]

Feb marks the opening date for applications involving two school choice programs in North Carolina Parents can apply for the Opportunity Scholarship Program which provides funding for low-income families to send their children to private schools Parents also can apply for the new Education Savings Account program It provides funding to help defray other education costs for students in low-income families Terry Stoops John Locke Foundation vice president for research explains the role of both programs in promoting parental school choice Nearly state regulations help slow North Carolina's economic growth James Broughel research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George [... more]

NC Family president John Rustin talks with Karen Duquette vice president of Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina about the current status of the state's Opportunity Scholarship Program an educational scholarship program enacted by the General Assembly in July that is currently being challenged in two federal lawsuits [... more]

NC Family president John Rustin talks with Renee Flaherty an attorney with the Institute for Justice the nation's leading legal advocacy group for school choice about the legal defense of North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship Program which is being challenged in two separate lawsuits [... more]

NC Family president John Rustin talks with Matt Sharp legal counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom ADF about the constitutional rights of Christian schools in North Carolina to participate in the Opportunity Scholarship program as well as an aggressive campaign by Equality NC to bully Christian schools into declining participation in the program [... more]

NC Family president John Rustin talks with Darrell Allison president of Parents for Education Freedom in North Carolina about North Carolina's new Opportunity Scholarship Program that is aimed at empowering parents in lower income families to send their children to the non-public school of their choice [... more]