Press Releases
McCrory, Civic Leaders Attend Triangle Educational Forum
October 28, 2008
Gubernatorial candidate and Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory (R) joined church, school and civic leaders from across the state Tuesday evening to address equal opportunity in education at a public forum featuring a town hall style question and answer session. The event, themed "Parents and Children First," provided an opportunity for community leaders to discuss parental school choice as an ... Read More
Event to Address Equal Opportunity in Education
August 1, 2008
Partners for Educational Freedom in North Carolina ("Partners"), a statewide nonpartisan, nonprofit organization committed to empowering parents through choice in education, is hosting a public forum on parental school choice. The two-hour forum is designed to shed further light on the issue of parental choice as an equal rights issue and to ... Read More
Test Results Raise Questions about State School Board's Request for School Transfer Waiver
July 23, 2008
On July 2, less than three weeks before the release of testing results statewide, the North Carolina State Board of Education requested a waiver of the transfer option under No Child Left Behind. Under the law, if a school receives Title I federal funds and fails to meet assessment goals, then it must ... Read More
Special Needs Poll Results Reveal Need for Action
June 10, 2008
Results from a poll about special needs education in North Carolina were released today, indicating 82 percent of parents with school-aged children are in support of scholarships for special needs children. The poll was conducted by ... Read More
