State House GOP leaders packed the budget with education changes such as putting a charter-school friendly group in charge of deciding on charter schools.

Class-size limits, charter school changes, ... The N.C. House budget would cap 4th-grade class sizes at no more than 24 students. ... all UNC System schools and up to four private colleges.

The leader of the renown charter school group vowed to start class on Aug. 14 in a Queens public school building that the powerful teachers’ union is trying to kick her out of.