A report presented Thursday by the state Department of Public Instruction shows 12,252 of the state’s 106,704 Opportunity Scholarship students had previously attended a public school. State legislators have said they’ll reinvest in public schools the amount they lost from students leaving to use the private school vouchers.

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For the first time in the state’s history, any family can apply for an Opportunity Scholarship to cover K-12 private school costs, regardless of their income. The initial response has been large, with more than 31,600 completed applications received during the first five days of filing.

The new rules could lead to a 60% increase this year in the number of students getting a voucher. And that number will only continue to rise as state lawmakers plan to spend $4.7 billion on vouchers over the next decade.

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The state had the nation’s fifth-highest growth in private school enrollment since the 2019-20 school year, according to data released Tuesday by the Associated Press. During that same time period, North Carolina had the third-highest growth rate in the nation in charter school enrollment, a report released last week.

The growth in charter schools and private schools coincides with continuing declines in enrollment in traditional public schools.

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