On May 31st, even State Superintendent Catherine Truitt knew that most students who would benefit from expanding vouchers in NC were students already in private schools.
In addition, the less than flattering report done by Duke University’s Children’s Law Center called SCHOOL VOUCHERS IN NORTH CAROLINA : THE FIRST THREE YEARS showed us another aspect that we already knew years ago: the NC voucher system is the least transparent in the nation.
That report can be found here: https://law.duke.edu/childedlaw/School_Vouchers_NC.pdf.
No one in this state reads policy as clearly and closely as Kris Nordstrom of the North Carolina Justice Center. He simply took public information from the NC Dept. of Administration and the North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority and showed that there are schools reporting having receiving more vouchers than those schools have actual students.
That is just one example. Nordstrom combed through the data and found 61 more schools that had received more vouchers than students in the last reported school year.
caffeinated rage 