US Politics


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A state budget provision last year ending income caps to qualify for the decade-old Opportunity Scholarship program and the repeal of another eligibility requirement led to a six-fold increase in new applications for the coming school year. But without enough funding set aside, nearly 55,000 children who qualified for scholarships were placed on a waiting list.

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During this year’s primary session, the Senate passed a standalone spending measure that allocated $488 million to cover the program and another private-education funding initiative. But House members didn’t act on the measure and instead wanted the private-school money accompanied by public school spending increases within a budget bill.
Am I reading this right? North Carolina is spending hundreds of millions to give scholarships to kids who come from families of at least some means, to go to private schools?