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Students should have new choices of schools
Goldsboro News-Argus - Mar 10th, 2008
Darrell Allison is president of Parents for Education Freedom in North Carolina, a non-profit organization formed in 2005 and based in Raleigh.
Political Connections: Alternative Education
News14 - Feb 29th, 2008
The issue of alternative education and funding has come to the forefront as the state’s dropout rate continues to climb.
Parental School Choice Group Says Report Reflects Crisis in N.C. Schools
WNCT Channel 9 - Feb 1st, 2008
In response to a recent report released by national news magazine Education Week, Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina, a statewide parental school choice organization, today characterized the results as an indication of the need for serious reform.
Parental School Choice Group Says Report Reflects Crisis in N.C. Schools
Triangle dbusinessNews.com - Jan 23rd, 2008
In response to a recent report released by national news magazine Education Week, Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina, a statewide parental school choice organization, today characterized the results as an indication of the need for serious reform.
Program hopes to keep more black males in school
Triangle Tribune - Nov 19th, 2007
With almost half of black males in the state high school dropouts, choice advocates say there must be a better way.
Study: Dropouts Cause State Big Bucks
NBC 17 - Oct 26th, 2007
Some school districts are losing money as well due to dropouts. Superintendent of Edgecombe County Schools, Dr. Craig Witherspoon, says the school district loses about $6,500 in funding per dropout.
Group touts dropout study
Greenville Daily Reflector - Oct 25th, 2007
Proponents of public funding for private schools and home-schooled children released a study Wednesday on the cost of North Carolina's low high school graduation rates.
Report: Dropouts cost state more than $850M
Triangle Business Journal - Oct 24th, 2007
A new report says the 716,000 working-age dropouts in North Carolina cost the state $712 million in tax revenue every year.
Kannapolis Native Heads Parents for Educational Freedom in NC
CB&L Magazine - Oct 23rd, 2007
Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina (PEFNC) got the facts Tuesday and Wednesday on Pennsylvania’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC), a national model for creating school choice. Business leaders from Charlotte, Durham, Greensboro, and Winston-Salem attended along with PEFNC from Raleigh.
New group encourages financial incentives to level educational playing field (Asheville Citizen-Times)
Citizen-Times - Mar 6th, 2007
RALEIGH — School choice is a thorny issue with racial undertones.
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