Some applicants affected by overnight crash of NC's school voucher website
The application period opened Thursday for the expanded voucher program likely to draw tens of thousands of applicants.
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The Feb. 1 through March 1 application period for Opportunity Scholarships opened at midnight.
The North Carolina State Educational Assistance Authority doesn’t know why the outage occurred and is awaiting more information from their vendor on what happened, said Mary Shuping, a spokesperson for the Authority.
The website has been up and running since “well before the state of business hours” Thursday morning, Shuping said.
It’s unclear if the people who were in the application portal when the outage occurred will have to restart their applications or if they can continue where they left off.
The Opportunity Scholarship is not a first-come, first-served program, Shuping said, so families don’t need to apply as soon as the application window opens. They have until March 1.
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