- “It’s not the either/or situation that Gov. Cooper is advocating. Lawmakers have the opportunity to help both groups and they should,” said Bob Leubke, Director of the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation.
As the state legislature prepares to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of HB 10, which passed in September, Cooper is using this fall’s Helene disaster to make his case against the Opportunity Scholarship school choice program.
On Tuesday, the North Carolina General Assembly (NCGA) is expected to override HB 10, which includes budget adjustments, requiring sheriffs to cooperate with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and funding to clear the waitlist for North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarships program.
“Helene was the most devastating storm our state has ever seen, and there is a long and expensive road of recovery ahead for Western North Carolina,” said Cooper in a press release Friday. “Legislators should invest billions of dollars in Western North Carolina recovery instead of locking in billions for private school vouchers.”…