A Sanford private Christian school leads the pack as lawmakers turbocharge the state’s voucher program. - Business North Carolina

A Sanford private Christian school leads the pack as lawmakers turbocharge the state’s voucher program. - Business North Carolina

When state lawmakers launched the North Carolina Opportunity Scholarship in 2013, they promoted the program as one that would encourage school choice in the form of private school tuition for low-income families. Then, the program’s aid was restricted to families of four with household income of less than $44,123. Every year since, the state has moved the goal posts. By 2022, families making as much as $111,000 qualified, and a decade after the …