Education
The state House Education committee held a hearing on House Bill 187 this week, a bill that would ban K-12 schools from teaching about systemic racism.
Read MoreThe North Carolina governor has the power to appoint 11 of the 14 board members, with legislative approval. Republicans want to take that power away from the governor.
Read MoreThe simple truth is that this is yet another power grab from right-wing Republicans who are intent on controlling every aspect of our lives – so long as it’s an issue that they can add to their ever-growing culture war list.
Read MoreDenying students the opportunity to learn the true facts about the history of our state and our country only further reinforces the incomplete history that has been taught.
Read MoreA report titled “Making the Grade” ranks North Carolina at 48th overall for the amount of funding given to public schools and 50th for funding efforts.
Read MoreAmid Republicans’ campaign to challenge books and censor classroom curriculums, a new poll found that voters are overwhelmingly opposed to the increased efforts to ban books.
Read MoreAccording to a banned book report by PEN America that looked at the 2021-22 school year, there were 2,532 instances of individual books being banned in the U.S. That number includes 1,648 unique titles by 1,261 different authors, 290 illustrators and 18 translators.
Read MoreUnder the Biden administration’s new student debt relief plan, more than one million North Carolinians will be able to save thousands of dollars or even have their student loans forgiven.
Read MoreSome may think that Republicans are anti-education, but the reality is that they’re anti-public education. The NCGOP will gladly take funds and put them toward private and charter schools.
Read MoreState Republican lawmakers have once again refused to adequately fund public schools and pay our teachers and staff fair wages – and the NCGOP’s failures are leaving schools short on teachers.
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