Budgets

In the past eight months, there has been a good deal of debate about public charter schools in North Carolina. The debate has mostly focused on the arbitrary cap of 100 that was set in 1995, with charter advocates wanting to increase or eliminate the cap.

 On Monday, PEFNC President Darrell Allison was a featured guest in Asheville on the Take a Stand Show with Matt Mittan (570 AM). The other featured guest was Dr. Tony Baldwin, superintendent of Buncombe County Schools. State Superintendent of Schools, June Atkinson also called in as a guest. The discussion ranged from drop-out rates to year-round schools.

It seems that passing the Special Needs Tax Credit bill would have saved North Carolina’s public schools a lot of money and bad press.  Just ask the Orange County School System.  Yesterday, the OCSS released a statement defending their recommended education plan for 

Preliminary test results indicate that more North Carolina schools are meeting basic federal standards for Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP).   While this news is encouraging, media reports remain fixed on a recent court decision to grant power back to the elected State Superintendent and away from the appointed CEO of the state's Department of Public Instruction.