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In North Carolina, students get their choice of charter schools, but those schools are increasingly divided by race. In this southern state, where some of…
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Florida has become one of the nation’s hot spots for school choice programs. While many ideas may have originated in other states, Florida has adopted…
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Across the country next week, schools, families and advocacy groups will host events to celebrate National School Choice Week. Most Southern states allow…
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Voter ID Laws. Felon Rights. These topics aren’t foreign for teachers and students in Southern classrooms. But what happens when pressure to teach to the…
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In Mississippi, the Civil War still stirs emotions. It’s not so much that teachers disagree on how it should be taught, but that ongoing attempts by the…
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What should school children be taught about Islam? In Southern states such as Florida and North Carolina, parents claim students are being “indoctrinated”…
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Teaching subjects that trigger strong emotions and political divides is challenging. In the South, many of those fault-lines -- racial, religious and…
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Across the South, college football is in full swing. But football is just one of dozens of NCAA sports. In any season, student-athletes are pushing…
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States across the US have increasingly been turning to charter schools in an effort to bolster struggling public school systems. Two of the most recent…
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Florida has about 650 charter schools. They're part of school districts but are privately managed and largely free of many of the rules governing…