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Public schools’ big enrollment problem

Facing empty classrooms and dwindling dollars, many public school leaders are trying to figure out where all the kids went and what declining public school enrollment could mean for the communities they serve.

Conservative school vouchers supporter says NC expansion goes too far

Michael Petrilli, president of the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute, says an important debate is brewing in the school choice community—“how to balance the drive for educational freedom with other essential values, including fairness and fiscal responsibility."