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[State] North Carolina [Score] 8 [Charter Law Description] 
North Carolina law provides that the state board of education must allocate to each charter school: an amount equal to the average per-pupil allocation for average daily membership from the local school administrative unit allotments in which the charter school is located for each child attending the charter school except for the allocation for children with disabilities and for the allocation for children with limited English proficiency; an additional amount for each child attending the charter school who is a child with disabilities; and an additional amount for children with limited English proficiency attending the charter school, based on a formula adopted by the state board. North Carolina law provides that if a student attends a charter school, the local school administrative unit in which the child resides must transfer to the charter school an amount equal to the per-pupil share of the local current expense fund of the local school administrative unit for the fiscal year. In a national study of charter school funding (University of Arkansas, Charter School Funding: Inequity Expands, 2014), North Carolina charter schools were receiving on average $7,829 per pupil in public funds, while traditional public schools would have received $9,643 for those students. As a result, the state’s charter schools were receiving $1,814 per pupil—or 18.8 percent—less than what the traditional public schools would have received for those students. This figure includes all sources of funding, and analysis reveals some significant inequities for both operational and capital funding (see Component #19 for information on capital issues).
18. Equitable Operational Funding and Equal Access to All State and Federal Categorical Funding | National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Charter Law Description