NC becomes 10th state to pass school choice!

Want to help African Americans? Sure you can support BLM, go march in a woke parade, or feel guilty about the color or your skin or you can help support gov initiatives to provide what minorities want. The right to choose the school their children attend.

That's right, inner City Charter schools typically have 5 minority applicants for every 1 spot. These schools vastly outperform their public school peers and give young adults the launch they need to excel either in vocational training or college.

Whatever the color of your skin, everyone agrees that helping minorities join the workforce and have great careers is a win-win for everybody! School choice allows qualified Charter Schools to offer more outstanding schooling for the folks who need it most.

The Children Win in North Carolina

It’s the tenth state to give school choice to all its citizens.

By The Editorial Board, WSJ

Updated Sept. 24, 2023 5:24 pm ET

Happy to report: North Carolina on Friday became the tenth state to approve universal school choice. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper says he won’t veto the bill passed by the Legislature, no doubt because Republicans have enough votes to override.

The choice provisions are in the state’s much-delayed budget, which includes Medicaid expansion the Governor favors and tax cuts he opposes. North Carolina created the Opportunity Scholarship program in 2013, but this budget increases funding from $176.5 million to $520.5 million by the 2032-33 fiscal year. It also opens up eligibility to all North Carolinians, though the amount of the scholarship declines as income rises.

The fight illustrated both the importance of Republican unity and the vulnerabilities of Democrats who take orders from the teachers union and ignore parents. In May, when legislators signaled their intentions, Gov. Cooper released a video declaring a “state of emergency.” “It’s clear,” he said, “that the Republican legislature is aiming to choke the life out of public education.”

The emergency stunt did nothing but make the Governor look weak. It also highlighted his double standard. Mr. Cooper was happy to choose private school for one of his daughters. But when the legislators were ready to give North Carolinians the same choice, suddenly it was an attack on public schools.

Compare Gov. Cooper to state Rep. Tricia Cotham, a former Democrat who sends her son to private school. Unlike the Governor, she says that “as a policymaker and a mom” she would be a hypocrite if she voted to deny her constituents the same choice she has. She crossed the aisle to become a Republican in April, giving the GOP the three-fifths House majority it needed to override a veto.

Parents want better education choices for their children. The GOP favors what voters want, but Republicans need to stand up for their principles and stick together. They would do well to look at Iowa, where Gov. Kim Reynolds in last year’s primaries helped oust state house Republicans who had blocked school choice. This year the Iowa Legislature passed a universal school choice measure.

“Twenty-two states have trifectas, where Republicans hold the governorship and both branches of the Legislature,” says Corey DeAngelis of the American Federation for Children. “If all legislators with ‘Rs’ next to their names voted like Republicans and listened to their constituents, we’d have at least twice as many states with universal school choice.”

North Carolina’s vote is a big victory—for parents who want better schools for their children and the Republicans who fought to provide that choice. On to the next state, which should be Texas if the GOP can show the same steel as it did in Raleigh.