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North Carolina Makes Big Gains in Education Freedom: ALEC in The Center Square

Reporter Alan Wooten wrote in his piece for The Center Square of the turnarounds being taken in North Carolina as it rose to be ranked 12th nationally in The 2025 ALEC Index of State Education Freedom: A 50-State Guide to Parental Empowerment.

Universal school choice and clearance of 55,000 on a waiting list helped lift North Carolina 23 spots to 12th nationally in the 2025 Education Freedom Report from the American Legislative Exchange Council.

The jump was the largest of any, ALEC’s Lars Dalseide told The Center Square in an email. Florida retained the No. 1 spot and was the only state getting an “A+” while Ohio was another big gainer, moving 13 spots to 10th.

The Tarheel State, with about 1.5 million schoolchildren in its 11 million population, picked up an “F” for open enrollment, but otherwise was strong – an “A” for education freedom programs, “B” for charter schools, and “C” for each of homeschooling and virtual schooling.

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