In this report, we survey North Carolina’s private school landscape, describing: the agencies and associations that most frequently interact with schools in this sector; relevant legislative and policy developments that have shaped the private school sector in recent years; and the availability and usefulness to researchers, policy makers, and practitioners alike of relevant administrative data.
Paying particularly close attention to the state’s means-tested private school voucher program — the North Carolina Opportunity Scholarship Program — we summarize key trends since 2014-15 to 2017-18 and digitize original data that have never before been analyzed in a comprehensive manner to shed light on this understudied but diverse school sector.
For more, read this Twitter thread that highlights some of the key takeaways and interesting graphics from the report.
