Dear Friend,
Good news: the General Assembly has kept their promise to
the 58,400 families waitlisted in the Opportunity
Scholarship! On Monday, the Senate passed HB10, a measure
that allocates funding to clear the Opportunity Scholarship waitlist,
and earlier today the House joined them. The bill applies to students
who applied for the Scholarship by March 1, 2024, and are enrolled by
October 1, 2024. If tuition has been paid, parents will be reimbursed
up to the scholarship amount.
We applaud the
House and Senate’s decision to agree to increase funding for
Opportunity Scholarships in response to the overwhelming
number of applicants who are eager to send their children to
successful schools of their choice. Indoctrination has taken priority
over teaching basics like reading, math, history and science, and it
shows in test scores. Parents are tired of their children being
subjected to indoctrination with sexually explicit books such as
Lawn Boy, Gender Queer, George, and
impromptu CRT lectures. The freedom for parents to choose which school
is best for their child, regardless of income, is one of our most
basic liberties.
Parents know what’s best for their own children, and economics
should not be a stumbling block for families who want to escape
failing public schools rife with indoctrination. The Opportunity
Scholarship empowers parents to choose and afford the school which
best fits their child, and enables the education funding to follow
their child.
As an organization, getting the pro-school
choice Opportunity Scholarship passed and funded is something we have
worked hard on for years. Whether it has been lobbying
legislators directly, or equipping and asking thousands of you to
contact your representative and legislative leaders, or the many other
ways we have helped shape the public square, this is a victory we as a
coalition should be especially grateful for.
If
you appreciate the hard work we do advancing your values in our state,
would you consider making a much needed one-time or monthly donation
today to one of the hardest working conservative organizations in the
state?
Sincerely,
Tami
& Team NC Values
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