There continues to be a significant debate as to the most effective means of providing North Carolina's children with the best possible education. The one point upon which a great majority agree is that, despite substantial increases in funding, public education is not meeting the needs of a large proportion of the state's students. This paper presents parental school choice as a promising alternative to the educational status quo. At the same time, it explains why school choice is not only consistent with both the Constitution of North Carolina and the Constitution of the United States, but would assume a comfortable place among North Carolina's long history of innovative efforts to secure for its citizens the very best that education has to offer. (Contains 31 endnotes.) [This paper was presented by the North Carolina Education Alliance.]