Democratic Governor Roy Cooper announced that he will allow the new budget to become law without his signature, but that he considers the new budget to be “a bad budget that seriously shortchanges our schools, prioritizes power grabs, keeps shady backroom deals secret and blatantly violates the Constitution,” according to a statement he released Sept. 22. Medicaid expansion is the one issue on which the new budget accurately reflects the consensus of North Carolinians, according to Mac McCorkle, professor of the practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy. Based on similar programs in other states, the State Department of Public Instruction predicts that the majority of these vouchers will now go to students who are already attending private schools.