Democratic Governor Roy Cooper vetoed legislation to allow the state’s two low-performing virtual charters to expand enrollment.
Republican legislators complained that Cooper was interfering with the family’s right to choose a failing school.
State lawmakers passed a bill in July lifting the enrollment cap on the state’s two virtual charter schools so that they could grow by 20% a year. Cooper announced Monday that he had rejected Senate Bill 392, citing the schools’ poor academic performance.
“Current law already allows the State Board of Education to lift the enrollment cap on virtual charter schools,” Cooper, a Democrat, said in a statement. “Both schools have been low performing, raising concern about the effectiveness of this pilot. Decisions on adding more students should remain with the Board so it can measure progress and make decisions that will provide the best education for students.”
Diane Ravitch's blog 
In addition to the enrollment changes, the bill makes several other charter school changes including:
▪ Allows state Superintendent Mark Johnson to approve bonds to finance a charter school facility.
▪ Requires the state board to give a 10-year renewal to a charter school if its test scores are at least within 5 percentage points of the school district where it’s physically located.
▪ Requires background checks for members of the board of directors of charter schools.
True to form, ed reformers perform absolutely no work that will in any way benefit any public school student in the state.
Contributing anything of value to a public school is verboten in the echo chamber.
You’re just out of luck if you happen to attend one of the unfashionable “public sector schools”. No one in state government works for you. You’re paying thousands of people! They just refuse to do anything other than expand and promote charters and vouchers.
How did it happen that public school students and families disappeared? How do 90% of students and families in these states manage to end up without a single advocate in government?
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the entire conversation around schools/education appears to have been whittled down into the smallest of conversations for legislators: only charter/voucher/testing promotion brought to their attention — they then ONLY discuss how to implement those few ideas
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Here’s the utterly captured US Department of Education, spending yet another work week promoting private schools:
U.S. Department of Education
Jul 31
#EducationFreedom Scholarships follow students, not buildings
Nothing for public schools this year, again. Public school students don’t even exist on either their social media accounts or marketing efforts on the website. They have decided they work for +/- 7% of US students and families. They cannot find a single successful public school or public school student in the whole country that would merit their effort.
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“Republican legislators complained that Cooper was interfering with the family’s right to choose a failing school.”
Trumplicans (former Republicans) even cherry-pick the choices we are allowed to make for us.
Trumplicans DO NOT want women to have a choice regarding abortion even regarding rape or incest or the risk of dying if you carry the fetus to term.
Trumplicans DO NOT want anyone to have a choice when it comes to recreational drugs like Marijuana. A Republican President Richard Nixon declared the War on Drugs, and another Republican President Ronald Reagan doubled down on that war that has put millions of Americans in prison for even having an ounce of marijuana on them.
Trumplicans want everyone (even sociopaths, psychopaths, and serial killers) of a certain age (according to each state) to have a choice when it comes buying firearms.
Trumplicans want to keep beer, wine, and hard liquor legal and easy to buy even though this fermented liquid with a high alcohol content often cause more damage to our brains and bodies than marijuana does.
I wonder if Moscow Mitch’s real problem is he drinks a lot of Kentucky bourbon (or illegal 100-proof moonshine cooked up by one of his cousins) with milk and his brain is pickled and rancid.
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