Policy Implications: Often policy makers fail to recognize that the original intent of charter school legislation was clearly to make a system of school choice within the public school system. In this critical passage with Speaker Brubaker, we hear how a voucher proposal, which was clearly seen to attempting to offer a private school choice program for parents, was explicitly rejected as legislators actively embraced North Carolina’s proposed charter school law. As such, we see clear evidence in the public record that North Carolina legislators intended to establish new schools of choice that would be understood to be public schools.
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