Virtual charter school in Cabarrus County presents concrete challenge

Anne Blythe:

A virtual charter school with the potential to siphon millions of dollars from traditional public schools will pit school-choice advocates against the state's education establishment at a Monday court hearing.

A Wake County Superior Court judge is scheduled to hear arguments on whether an online charter school program that would be run by a for-profit company should be allowed to open in North Carolina in August, as a state administrative law judge ruled in May.

The state Board of Education hopes to persuade the Superior Court judge that proper procedures were not followed for a new program that represents one of the more overt commercial aspects of the school-choice movement.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at June 28, 2012 3:31 AM
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