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 Thousands of supporters across New Jersey ralled at that state's capitol recently for legislators to support the Opportunity Scholarship Act, which would allow low-income and working class children from the state's lowest performing school districts to receive scholarships to attend private school.

Gov. Beverly Perdue’s signing of a bill eliminating the public charter school cap has allowed for an opportunity to create more quality schools to address the state’s achievement gap for low income and mostly minority students.

School choice is much less controversial than some make it out to be, and it involves more than charter schools and opportunity scholarships, incoming Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Smith said in an interview with Gradebook.

In part, Smith said:

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Charter school bill passes House

PEFNC kicks off legislative school tours

Speaker of the House Thom Tillis and

PEFNC President Darrell Allison writes about the need for expanded school choice in Durham and the rest of the state in a guest column that ran in today's Durham News section of The News & Observer.

"The bigger concern is that we continue to dig ditches of educational uncertainty while the gold we're seeking is right before our eyes," he wrote.

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PEFNC supports legislation eliminating state charter school cap

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