Education

When adjusted for inflation, educators in North Carolina are making 12% less than they were in 1999.  Their classroom budgets have been cut in half over the last 10 years.  They continue to be asked to move mountains without being given the resources to do it.  Educators around the country are demanding that conditions be…

When adjusted for inflation teachers in North Carolina are making 12% less than they were in 1999.  Per pupil spending in the last ten years has been cut in half.  The expectations for teacher’s performance continues to get higher yet they are given fewer and fewer resources.  It’s time that our teachers be paid a decent…

Teachers and students around the country are exercising their rights to demand action from lawmakers.  Teachers are demanding better pay and students are demanding a safer world. Together they have the potential to change education in our country to be safer and more effective.  It’s time politicians listen and represent the best interest of the people.…

The Republican tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations led to big cuts in public school funding in North Carolina. When adjusted for inflation teachers in our state are making 12% less than they were in 1999-2000. Now teacher shortages are a problem around the state as teachers move away for higher pay or…

The citizens of North Carolina agree that our teachers should be paid more.  A recent study from High Point University found that 85% of North Carolinians polled agree that teachers are paid too little. With teacher shortages in schools across the state, it’s clear that something must be done.  It’s time for our lawmakers to prioritize…

Enraged high school students in Greensboro walked out of classes to demand reasonable gun regulations. They want to feel safe in their school and have made it clear having more guns isn’t going to make their school safer. Meanwhile, our lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow people with no training and no background checks…

Politicians controlling NC’s state legislature are turning our children into political hostages by making school funding dependent on a number of unrelated “poison pill” provisions designed to get Democrats to oppose the legislation. The State Board of Elections and the Atlantic Coast natural gas pipeline have nothing to do with school funding. Republican leaders simply…

Longtime public school veteran Tom Benton is right to be worried about North Carolina’s public schools. With constant cuts to supply budgets, a serious teacher shortage, and an erosion of the commitment to diversity schools in North Carolina are certainly in trouble.  Lawmakers in Raleigh aren’t prioritizing education and instead are giving tax cuts to the…

Republicans in Raleigh are once again playing political games.  This time they are using our students as a political football.  They created an unfunded mandate to reduce class sizes for grades K-3 in public schools statewide.  By not allocating funds to enable schools to employ more teachers and add classrooms schools across the state are…

The NC GOP thinks smaller class sizes for grades K-3 are a good idea and it is a good idea.  However, the unfunded mandate they have placed on schools will force them to either increase the class sizes of grades 4 and 5 or cut essential classes like computer science.  Smaller class sizes are better…