A new article posted by the Civitas Institute discusses a legislative options that could provide real education choice to North Carolina families: Education Savings Accounts (ESAs). A sample from the article: ESAs shift the power from schools to parents. With ESAs, parents – not the schools — determine where a child will attend school. Parents also control [...]
Local Business Owner on the Impact of Fuel Prices
Every day I drive past a gas station and convenience store, the Grocery Boy Junior. About every other Friday, I stop in to fill up my tank. A few weeks ago, I noticed something on the marquee outside of the building while fueling up and muttering about the high gas prices. “HIGH GAS PRICES [A]FFECT [...]
Setting the Record Straight: Indy Week Lies about Civitas Lunch with Art Pope
What’s a journalist to do when he doesn’t have a story? Apparently, if you’re with Indy Week, you’re supposed to make one up. That’s what Bob Geary did after the Civitas Poll Luncheon at the Doubletree Brownstone Hotel in Raleigh this past Thursday. Geary’s article is replete with errors. The first comes a few lines [...]
Art Pope greets his protesters
A small group of protesters showed up outside a luncheon in Raleigh sponsored by the Civitas Institute. A new poll on political races was to be unveiled. Businessman and former Republican legislator Art Pope was scheduled to speak at the luncheon. The protesters want Pope to resign from a new UNC advisory board to which he had recently [...]
School Choice – The Road Ahead
The school choice movement, which seeks to expand K-12 education opportunities through charter and private schools, has seen major gains in the past few years across the country. Most recently, a superior court ruled in favor of Arizona’s education savings accounts which makes money available to families to help with the expense of private schools. In [...]
