North Carolina
North
Carolina Education & Law Project
The North Carolina Education & Law Project, formed
in 1991, seeks to improve the public education system
in North Carolina so that it better serves low-income
and minority children. The project is recognized for:
its advocacy efforts which have produced legislation
to reduce class size in the primary grades and improve
parental involvement in public schools; its research
on issues such as alternative education, best practices
for elementary education, and the achievement gap; and
its training through the North Carolina Parent Studies
Program which builds the capacity of low-income parents
to become actively involved in school governance matters.
Public
School Forum of North Carolina
In 1985, leading business people, elected officials
and educators concluded that North Carolina needed a
"standing blue ribbon commission on education and
the economy" to build consensus around initiatives
that could strengthen schools and maintain consistent
support for school improvement. That conclusion led
to the creation of the Public School Forum, an independent,
bi-partisan public policy center. The Forum's sixty-member
Board of Directors includes roughly equal numbers of
the state's business leaders, elected officials and
educators. For information on the many published studies
of the Forum, see http://ncforum.org/doclib/publications/.
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