From Organize 2020: Send a letter: Tell your rep today: Our students need support! Body: Friend, I wrote a letter for the Organize 2020 Caucus campaign: Tell your rep today: Our students need support! May 1 is getting close. All this week we are focusing on NCAE's 5 Priority Issues to tell the NC General … Continue reading Write Your Lawmakers About the Five Priority Issues – See Where They Stand!

This letter was first posted a little over a year ago as a groundswell was beginning to build that led to the historic march and rally of last May 16th. And it seemed appropriate that it be posted again as two of the five very issues defined for this year's march directly affect our younger … Continue reading An Open Letter From a Veteran North Carolina Teacher to Young Teachers – You Are Vital And One of the Many Reasons to Go All Out on May 1

I went to to the May 16th, 2018 march and rally for public education in Raleigh. I will be going to the May 1st, 2019 march and rally. For those axtions, I have been called a "communist democrat." Been called a "union thug." Been called a "loser." I will probably be called a lot more things by … Continue reading By Raleigh’s Definition, This Teacher Is Supposed To Go All Out For May 1

It was my second year teaching. East Forsyth High School. Then a little after 11:00 a.m., something happened... In Columbine, CO. Each of these young people would be 20 years older today.

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Rather than discourage teachers from remaining in the profession, the quick route to top pay will lure more teachers into the profession, which some say is not happening now because it takes too long to get maximum pay, Tillman said. The above is in reference to Sen. Jerry Tillman comments on an initiative for teachers … Continue reading This Was Supposed to Make The Teaching Profession More Inviting in NC According the NCGA (From 2014)

The way that NCGA leaders (primarily Sen. Phil Berger) have spun the narrative of advanced degree pay, longevity pay, and local supplements is more than disgraceful. It's flat-out egregious. The GOP-led NC legislature decided in 2013 to end graduate degree pay bumps for new teachers entering the teaching profession. This is what Phil Berger said … Continue reading Advanced Degree Pay, Longevity Pay, and Local Supplements: What’s Really Happening Under Berger’s Watch

In a press release sent out by Sen. Phil Berger's office a couple of days ago, Berger included a couple of quotes by Sen. Ralph Hise who unsurprisingly offered a very pointed view of teachers. In a post yesterday, this blog took aim and responded to two of the points that Hise made, particularly about … Continue reading According to Sen. Hise, What This Poll Really Says is That There Are a Lot of “Stupid Folks” in This State

Below is a list of the five core issues being brought into the public discourse for May 1st. Below is what Mark Johnson, the top public education official in the state, has said in regard to those five issues:                 Absolutely nothing.  

When the GOP won control of both houses in the North Carolina General Assembly in the elections of 2010, it was the first time that the Republicans had that sort of power since 1896. Add to that the election of Pat McCrory as governor in 2012, and the GOP has been able to run through … Continue reading Just Remember, This is What Phil Berger and His Cronies Have Done to NC’s Public School System Since 2011