It’s National School Choice Week! On Friday, just before the launch of NSCW, State Superintendent Maurice “Mo” Green visited Pine Springs Preparatory Academy, a K-8 public charter school in Holly Springs. A Coalition member school, Pine Springs Prep is led by Bruce Friend, who also chairs the state’s Charter Schools Review Board.
On Friday morning on X, Superintendent Green wrote about his visit to Pine Springs Prep:
Families in North Carolina deserve to have access to school choice, including high-quality charter schools. This morning, I toured the beautiful Pine Springs Preparatory Academy in Holly Springs and had a chance to meet with their leadership, students and staff, as well as members of the North Carolina Charter Schools Review Board. I look forward to continuing to learn about all of the wonderful @ncpublicschools in our state!
Left to right: John Eldridge, Vice Chair, Charter Schools Review Board; State Superintendent Mo Green; Bruce Friend, Executive Director, Pine Springs Prep, and Chair, Charter Schools Review Board; Ashley Baquero, Director, North Carolina Office of Charter Schools; and Gregg Sinders, Board Member, Pine Springs Prep, and Board member, NC Coalition for Charter Schools Board of Directors.
Photo credit: State Superintendent Green/X.
We appreciate Superintendent Green’s spotlight on an excellent public charter school–and we look forward to highlighting charter excellence this week!
National School Choice Week 2025 runs from January 26 to February 1.
