June 12, 2025

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New Report: NC Voucher School Curriculum Review

Public Schools First NC has released a new report: NC K-12 Private Schools
2024-25: A Review of Curriculum!

“Because voucher programs, like the one in North Carolina, are supported
through tax revenues, the public has a stake in knowing whether the money
spent represents a sound investment. In addition, because attendance at a
private school meets the state’s compulsory education requirement, the
state has a stake in being assured that the education offered meets basic
standards.”([7]School Vouchers in North Carolina: The First Three Years,
Children’s Law Clinic & Duke Law School)

North Carolina’s lawmakers have spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer
dollars on private school vouchers since the program’s launch in 2014, but
they still require no oversight of the curriculum taught by the schools
that receive state funds.

This lack of academic accountability is in sharp contrast to public
schools, which must select curriculum aligned to the North Carolina
Standard Course of Study, a rigorously developed and reviewed set of
content standards designed to prepare students for postsecondary college
and career options.

Our new report focuses on the curriculum taught in North Carolina's K-12
private schools that received vouchers for the 2024-2025 school year. It is
modeled on research completed by the North Carolina League of Women Voters
of the Lower Cape Fear (NC LWV-LCF) in 2017.

The reports show that the majority of voucher-receiving private schools use
a biblical worldview curriculum that some education experts worry does not
have the academic content and rigor required by the North Carolina Standard
Course of Study when preparing students for postsecondary options.

The report includes recommends that the North Carolina General Assembly
establish a study commission to examine the curriculum taught at private
schools receiving taxpayer voucher funds. The commission should be charged
with evaluating whether the biblical worldview curriculum (and other
curriculum taught in voucher-receiving private schools) meets the learning
standards necessary for our high school students to succeed after high
school in the 21st century.

Click on the link below for the curriculum details for each NC K-12 private
school receiving voucher funding.

[8]Read the Report!

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7. [link removed] new report focuses on the curriculum taught in North Carolina's K-12 private schools that received vouchers for the 2024-2025 school year. It is modeled on research completed by the North Carolina League of Women Voters of the Lower Cape Fear (NC LWV-LCF) in 2017 that reported curriculum choices of private schools participating in the school voucher program. Both reports show that the majority of voucher-receiving private schools use a biblical worldview curriculum that may lack the academic content and rigor required of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study/
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