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NC Officials Defend Charter School Cap

By ADF Alliance Alert

North Carolina Family Policy Council: "North Carolina?s education leaders have asked the Obama Administration to rethink its emphasis on charter schools in making determinations for the distribution of federal funds for innovations and accountability in education. In a letter dated August 27, State School Superintendent Dr. June Atkinson and State Board of Education Chairman Dr. Bill Harrison joined representatives from the NC Association of Educators, NC Parent Teach Association, NC School Boards Association, and NC Association of School Administrators to ask Education Secretary Arne Duncan to reconsider putting North Carolina at a disadvantage to receive a portion of $4.35 billion in Race to the Top grant funds because of the state?s cap on charter schools . . . "

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 11, 2009 (boomark / email).