Far-left NCAE suing to stop low- and middle-income families from accessing scholarships for private schools
Program serves higher proportion of Black students than public schools
Reminder: Republicans have increased public education budget by $1,748 per student
A much higher proportion of Opportunity Scholarship applicants are Black (35%) than the proportion served by the public school system (25%). Polling consistently shows massive support for school choice, especially among Black respondents.
Programs like the Opportunity Scholarship empower parents with a choice in their children's education. The N.C. Supreme Court has already ruled that the Opportunity Scholarship program is Constitutional, and the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that public funds can go to private schools.
Sen. Deanna Ballard (R-Watauga), who co-chairs the Senate Education Committee, said, "The
far-left NCAE says it cares about equity in schooling, but it's suing
to ensure low-income families can't afford to send their children to
private school. Nobody disputes that children will suffer from public
school closures, yet this suit would strip low-income children of the
only chance they have to attend private schools, which are open for
in-class instruction."
The evidence showing harm from school closures to at-risk children is overwhelming.
If successful, the far-left NCAE's suit would restrict access to
private, in-person instruction to only children from wealthy families.
Eliminating Opportunity Scholarships would have a disparate impact on
low-income communities and communities of color.
As a reminder, Republicans have increased public school funding by large amounts since coming into power in 2011. Education funding in North Carolina has increased by $968 per student in just four years, and $1,748 per student in nine years
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