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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

The governor of North Carolina declares an emergency over school choice

as a scholarship program for low-income students in Illinois is allowed to expire.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassel, and editorial board member Colin Levy.

Let's start today in North Carolina where Governor Roy Cooper issued an emergency.

And here is a clip of his statement.

It's time to declare a state of emergency for public education in North Carolina.

It's clear that the Republican legislature is aiming to choke the life out of public education.

Their private school voucher scheme will pour your tax money into private schools that are unaccountable to the public

and can decide which students they want to keep out.

They want to expand private school vouchers so that anyone, even a millionaire, can get taxpayer money for their children's private academy tuition.

This drops an atomic bomb on public education by shrinking the state's budget by almost 20%.

Public school superintendents are telling me they'll likely have to cut schools to the bone.

Kim, what do you make of the governor's statement there?

Oh my goodness. What a pack of baloney and what a stunt as well declaring an emergency.

Look, this is only going to drop an atomic bomb on Roy Cooper's main backers, which are the teachers union.

What we're really talking about here is a Republican legislature in North Carolina.

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