A round up of education news from around the state of North Carolina and beyond.

Highlights: Student growth in Wake county, School choice booming in Wake schools, Common Core Commission’s final meeting, NCAE blows off the law, safety concerns in Wake schools.

REMINDER: Today is the NC Common Core Commission’s final meeting.
It is from 1-5 pm today on the 7th floor of the Department of Public Instruction building in Raleigh. The public is encouraged to attend.
I will be there, live tweeting under hashtag: #ASRC

THE BIG STORY

• NC Auditor: NCAE “Refused to furnish the information” 
• NCAE refuses to provide membership numbers

EDU NEWS

Education activist is Blocked By Former Wake County Board Of Ed Chair

Wake County to lower student enrollment projections
Related:

• WRAL Concerned About #WCPSS ‘Student Growth‘
• New WCPSS Enrollment Numbers: Parents Want Choice
• Wake County enrollment numbers getting attention 
• #WCPSS Has ‘Student Growth’ — in Charters, Homeschools, Private Schools 

Family is thankful for the Opportunity Scholarship Program

New UNC System Report Says: We Cheat 
Also: UNC paper classes’ underlying scandal – K-12 failures

Common Core By a New Name and on Steroids, ‘Every Student Succeeds Act’ 

NCSPIN: Fitzsimon Doesn’t Get Why McCrory Would Stand Up For NC Children 

NOT A HOMESCHOOL

• Wake school system may fine students whose threats lead to evacuations 
• Bryson City principal calls student assembly to address abuses of phone app