On Monday, Dave Machado, the Coalition’s executive director, shared a presentation about the Coalition with the N.C. Charter Schools Review Board. He focused specifically on highlights from the Coalition’s 2024 Annual Report, noting work to protect and promote public charter schools.
He also shared the Coalition’s three core functions: advocacy, communications, and education.
The Coalition’s status as a 501(c)(6) organization enables intensive advocacy work at the state legislature and an unlimited ability to lobby on charter schools’ behalf, Dave said. The Coalition works to advocate “for charter school laws that make sense, … to stop charter school laws that don’t make sense,” and to advance the state’s charter school movement.
Communication involves outreach to both internal and external stakeholders, Dave said, including a weekly members’ newsletter and a monthly parent newsletter. The Coalition also hosts biweekly legislative updates with our Government Relations Team, which gives members an opportunity to ask questions about bills.
Regarding education and Coalition members specifically, Dave said:
We want to educate them on the issues that are facing charter schools, not just at the General Assembly, but at the Department of Public Instruction, at the Office of Charter Schools … We hear it all the time, “I feel like I’m an island out here by myself.” We want to make sure that you’re not an island, that we are your voice, and you can call us anytime … If I don’t have the answer, I try to get it.
In addition, Dave highlighted key legislative achievements from 2024. You can see those in the presentation screenshot below:
He ended with a quote from Rep. James Roberson (D-Wake) about charter schools that’s featured on this slide from the presentation and is included in the Coalition’s annual report:
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- If you’d like to listen to Dave’s presentation, you can find the CSRB recording here. (Go to around the 5:26 mark.)
- Find Dave’s presentation to the CSRB here.
- Read the Coalition’s 2024 Annual Report.
- See the latest list of Coalition members, which includes more than 90 schools!
*This post has been updated.
