NC lawmakers are rapidly expanding publicly-funded funded vouchers for private schools while public schools remain underfunded. A North Carolina lawmaker dishes on who has the most to lose.
WATCH: The Charlotte mother of a public school student on why the legislature’s private school voucher expansion makes her angry. 😡 Republicans in the General Assembly are expected to expand the state’s private school voucher program by $465 million in the coming weeks. S.Y. Mason-Watson told Cardinal & Pine the voucher program is diverting money […]
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“I think maybe the most confounding mystery is why so many rural legislators vote to take taxpayer money out of their own public schools and send it to the large number of private schools in the city,” he said.