Moms of Color for School Choice (501c3 pending) is a nonpartisan organization founded in June 2024 with the mission of making high quality education accessible to children from working and middle class through the expansion of state supported school choice scholarships. We are also calling on the NC Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and the NC State Senate create policies and laws that 1/ eliminate neighborhood-based districting, 2/ reinstate effective standards of grade level promotion based on student proficiency, and 3/ allow per pupil DOE allocations to follow a student to any school selected by a parent or guardian.

Wealthy families with HH incomes of $120K+ have more school choice than less affluent ones because they can 1/segregate themselves by moving to wealthier neighborhoods with better schools and higher percentages of family with two parent households (across races). These areas tend to attract and retain teachers who are more effective instructors. Wealthy family also have more expendable income than working class families, allowing them to pay for private schools or enroll their children at high performing charters that lack school bus service. The only educational options for children of most working-class families in NC is the local district school that often lacks student discipline, engaged and tenured teachers, and high instructional rigor. Expanding school choice to lower income parents gives them the same options as wealthy parents to obtain better instructional opportunities their children.