N. Carolina GOP seeks big private school voucher expansion

Public money for private school tuition would be available to all of North Carolina's K-12 students regardless of income, under Republican-backed legislation that began advancing in the General Assembly on Wednesday. For nearly all of their history, the private school grants were only available to families who would qualify for free or reduced-price lunch at school or have been a little above that financial cut-off. Now, a Senate committee has passed a massive expansion of the Opportunity Scholarship Program, created in 2013. Republican leaders from both chambers hailed it as...