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Despite long-standing dedication and increased funding, the paper argues that public education still fails many students’ needs. It proposes parental school choice as an alternative to the current system, and explains that such choice can align with both the North Carolina and U.S. Constitutions while advancing the state’s tradition of educational innovation.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":40,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/research-report/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/school-choice-and-the-north-carolina-constitution/584402/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/school-choice-and-the-north-carolina-constitution/584402.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"WPS_1786070896","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-29","2026-10-15",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":24},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"What problem does the paper identify in North Carolina public education?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"Public education, despite substantial funding increases, is not meeting the needs of a large proportion of the state’s students.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"What is school choice, according to the paper?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"School choice is the idea that parents should be able to choose where their children attend school, including options beyond the assigned public school.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"What main forms of school choice programs does the paper describe?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"The paper describes three common forms: publicly funded scholarships, privately funded scholarships, and tax credits or exemptions for parents choosing non-public options.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},584402,1792209335,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":39,"category_name":40,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":24,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":139,"language":140,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":144,"read_time":145,"preview_page_count":4},549768072016,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_155a257f0dc6eb9ab79c44ca47cae57d","SCHOOL CHOICE AND THE NORTH CAROLINA CONSTITUTION  \nINTRODUCTION  \nEducation has always been an issue of  \ncentral concern for the people of North  \nCarolina. Even before statehood, the area’s colonists made concerted efforts to secure the blessings of education for their children. In 1776, the authors of North Carolina’s first Constitution required the Legislature to provide publicly funded schools to encourage education in the state.i Throughout the state’s history its people have adopted all sorts of innovative educational plans, all designed to promote learning among North Carolina’s young citizens. Education’s special place of concern in the minds of North Carolinians is further revealed by reading the state’s current Constitution, which dedicates both a section of its Declaration of Rightsii and an entire articleiii to the subject. Education is, unquestionably, a subject to which  \nthe people of this state have shown a deep and abiding commitment.  \nIn spite of this commitment, there continues to be a significant debate as to the most effective means of providing North Carolina’s children with the best possible education. The one point upon which a great majority agree is that, despite substantial increases in funding, public education is not meeting the needs of a large proportion of the state’s students. This paper will present parental school choice as a promising alternative to the educational status quo. At the same time, it will explain why school choice is not only consistent with both the Constitution ofNorth Carolina and the Constitution of the United States, but would assume a comfortable place among North Carolina’s long history of innovative efforts to secure for its citizens the very best that education has to offer.  \nSchool Choice and the N. C. Constitution  \nWHAT IS SCHOOL CHOICE?  \nSchool choice is rooted in one simple idea – it’s a good thing for parents to be able to choose where their kids will go to school. After all, millions of parents all over the country regularly make choices about where their children will go to school, whether that means choosing a neighborhood with good public schools or choosing to send their kids to a preferred private or religious school. No one ever argues that they shouldn’t be allowed to make those choices .  \nThe problem is, not all parents are able to make those choices because each of those choices cost money. Many parents of schoolaged children can’t afford to live in neighborhoods with good public schools, and neither can they afford to send their children to private schools. As a result, they have no effective choice: they must send their kids to wherever their school district tells them to go. People who support school choice simply want to give poor and middle-class parents the same options already available to wealthier parents.  \nThere are several different ways that the State can offer parents these choices. North Carolina has already taken advantage of one of those by allowing the creation of charter schools, which are special independent schools that are supported by the State, but allowed to operate separate from the regular public schools system. This state currently has nearly one hundred charter schools, each offering an alternative to the educational status quo. Despite this step in the right direction, charter schools are still only available to a very small percentage of parents. North Carolina can do more.  \nA well-crafted school choice program will allow parents to choose from among a number of alternatives, which normally will include all of a district’s public schools and a number ofprivate schools, including some religious schools. School choice programs usually come in one of three forms: (1) publicly funded scholarships,(2) privately funded scholarships, or (3) tax credits or exemptions. With publicly funded scholarships, the government lets parents choose from among the schools participating in the program and then  \npays or helps pay for the","cbCaigb2d4LhtOGU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigb2d4LhtOGU","pdf",311039,11,"English","# Introduction\n## School choice as a constitutional alternative\n# What is School Choice?\n## Why choices are limited by cost\n## Charter schools and other program forms\n## How scholarships and tax credits work\n## Why school choice is argued to help","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the paper identify in North Carolina public education?\",\"answer\":\"Public education, despite substantial funding increases, is not meeting the needs of a large proportion of the state’s students.\"},{\"question\":\"What is school choice, according to the paper?\",\"answer\":\"School choice is the idea that parents should be able to choose where their children attend school, including options beyond the assigned public school.\"},{\"question\":\"What main forms of school choice programs does the paper describe?\",\"answer\":\"The paper describes three common forms: publicly funded scholarships, privately funded scholarships, and tax credits or exemptions for parents choosing non-public options.\"}]","SCHOOL CHOICE AND THE NORTH CAROLINA CONSTITUTION | PDF",1792050903,28]