North Carolina is host to the latest battle over expanding digital learning, charter schools, and parent choice.  It involves attempts by the State Board of Education (SBE) and the NC School Boards Association to block a proposed online public charter school, North Carolina Virtual Academy (NCVA) from serving students this Fall.  But beyond the details of this one new charter school, this issue has sparked a renewed debate over governance, and whether the principal virtue of “local

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