Special Needs

With the expansion of a Montessori program in Mecklenburg County, a statewide push for more early college high schools, and Raleigh Charter High School’s ranking in the Top 20 high schools in the nation, alternative frameworks for k-12 education obviously are increasingly popular to first-rate results.

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.

Well, we got what we asked for. 

At the NC General Assembly yesterday, the House Committee on Education was scheduled to discuss House Bill 687, which would provide a $6,000 per year tax credit for families of children with special needs. Unfortunately, the committee did not have enough time to discuss HB 687 before the meeting came to an end.