For the second round of applications, Governor Perdue, still desperate for federal loot, urged legislators to use a similar approach. The North Carolina General Assembly passed a bill that will permit school districts to establish up to 135 so-called “charter-like innovative, autonomous schools.”33 These district-run schools will reportedly have “all the hallmarks of a charter school,” except the defining characteristic of a genuine charter school—a community board. Sen. Eddie Goodall, President of the North Carolina Association of Public Charter Schools, playfully called these “charter lite” schools.34
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I agree: the linked article (Mr. Stoops’s “Charter School Checkmate: North Carolina’s Success Despite Institutionalized Opposition”) is a very good history, and perhaps the best succinct history of charter schools in the state that’s ever been written.
Thank you for the kind comments.
There is a much better story to be told about charter schools in North Carolina – the powerful stories of students who had the privilege to attend (or graduate from) a charter school.