--- title: Daily Update - December 29, 2025 description: Daily Update - December 29, 2025Charter Schools point the way to better education.Listen@the-wilmington-standard Transcript About Reuel Sample This is the Wilmi... canonical_url: https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/podcast/the-daily-update/daily-update-december-29-2025 language: en-US date: 2025-12-29T11:40:46Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/podcast/the-daily-update/daily-update-december-29-2025. Schema.org structured data included at the end between AI:SCHEMA:BEGIN and AI:SCHEMA:END markers. markdown-tokens: 1367 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/podcast/the-daily-update/daily-update-december-29-2025. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Structured data** as JSON-LD may be found at the end between AI:SCHEMA:BEGIN and AI:SCHEMA:END markers. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. This is the Wilmington Standard Daily Update for Monday December 29th, 2025. According to the [Carolina Journal](https://www.carolinajournal.com/nc-ranks-4th-in-national-charter-school-growth/), North Carolina now ranks 4th in the nation in the number of Charter Schools in operation. Just last year, the number of students enrolled in charter schools rose by 6%, while public schools saw a slight decline. Overall, just over 10% of all students in our state are enrolled in a charter school. The [Carolina Journal](https://www.carolinajournal.com/nc-ranks-4th-in-national-charter-school-growth/) further reports: \[nationally in charter schools\] enrollment has grown among Hispanic students by 22.6%, among black students by 10%, and white student enrollment is up 4.5%. Charter Schools focus on the education of children in different ways. Some – like [GLOW Academy](https://glowacademy.net/) here in Wilmington – only admit girls. Others in Wilmington – like the [Classical Charter School](https://rogerbaconacademy.com/classical-charter-schools-of-wilmington/) – rely on the values and methods of traditional western civilization. Still others – such as the [Cape Fear Center for Inquiry](https://cfci.net/) – go for a more wholistic, social-emotional learning model. In every charter school, parents are more highly involved, children are more individually engaged, and the [results show](https://publiccharters.org/news/new-research-finds-charter-school-students-outpaced-district-school-peers-in-reading-and-math/) that students in these schools outpace their public school peers in reading and math. Public schools need to take notice. The vast majority of Charters are not unionized – which means they are child-focused and not teacher-focused. They respond much quicker to the concerns of parents and not idealogues. They generally have higher standards and higher goals for children instead of just teaching to the middle. And as more and more minorities and low-income students enroll in charter schools, they provide an educational opportunity that has generational impact. As we head into an election year where the future of New Hanover’s education system is at stake – will we bow to the teacher’s unions and other special interests from the Left who hate charter schools – all alternate schools for that matter - and maintain the status quo of our public schools – or are we willing to think out of the box and actually educate our children. For the Wilmington Standard, I’m Reuel Sample. 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