Education reporter Greg Childress discusses some of the top K-12 stories of 2023

When North Carolina Republicans obtained veto-proof supermajorities in both the state House and Senate in 2023, it unleashed a wave of conservative legislation that had previously been bottled up, and another field in which that was especially obvious was public education.

As we were reminded in a recent conversation with NC Newsline K-12 education reporter Greg Childress, the conservative push to remake public schools has had many components, but two, in particular stood out in 2023: 1) the culture war agenda that gained the most attention with the passage of a controversial bill known as the “Parents’ Bill of Rights,” and 2) in the continued expansion of so-called school choice laws that make school vouchers available to families of all incomes and that open the door to even more rapid expansion of charter schools. Read more of Greg’s coverage here.