If you have not heard yet, then: More here: "Those projects and similar ones in schools around the country are now on hold — and states and school districts are on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars — after Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the U.S. Department of Education would not pay for … Continue reading So Now The Federal Government Is Owed Education Funds?

Senator Phil Berger has done more to try and dismantle public schools in North Carolina than any other person in this state. In the past fourteen years, Berger has spearheaded as many attacks against public schools and the people who work in them as any lawmaker in the country. Teacher Pay Kept Well Below National Average Removal … Continue reading No One Has Hurt Public Schools In NC More Than This Person

So, when are you going to go and fight for your public schools? When are you going to call out those people in the North Carolina General assembly who continue to bow down to private interests at the expense of our most vital social services like public education? Remember September of 2018? That's when a … Continue reading Dear School Board, County Commission, & Central Office, You Need To FIGHT FOR Schools – Not Against Them

When you are the most powerful, gerrymandered lawmaker in the state who has orchestrated a highly financed war against public education over the last dozen years, and you sponsor a bill entitled "School Calendar Flexibility: A New Alternative", then you are hiding something in the details. It's SB754. The title of the bill sounds innocuous … Continue reading Another Phil Berger Bill To Hurt Schools

Remember that the NC Supreme Court failed to act on the LEANDRO court decision… again. Remember that this has been the trend for over a decade. WFAE’s report states: The Education Law Center’s 2024 report on “Making the Grade” can be found here. The shift in NC’s willingness to fund its public schools came as the … Continue reading Teacher Working Conditions = Student Learning Environment

Talk about the one-person, one-vote rule. Some rural lawmakers are literally proposing to abolish that. From the Winston-Salem Journal: "In fact, if House Bill 234, titled "Little Federal Model NC Edition," becomes law, Forsyth and Guilford could be joined to have just one senator, as well as Durham and Wake counties. "The proposed legislation would … Continue reading One-Person, One-Vote?

EdNC.org today published a piece entitled "If you care about teacher morale in North Carolina, this data is worth a look" that begins, "Education Week recently released its Teacher Morale Index, which helps us understand how teachers in North Carolina and across the United States feel about their profession." Maybe teacher morale was up from last year … Continue reading Don’t Think That Report On Teacher Morale Is Very Accurate

The election is over. Last year Trump attempted to publicly distance himself from a document that mentions his name 312 different times during the summer and early fall, but he doesn’t need to now. So… in a continued look at the document Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership, I revisited a simple find and search on key … Continue reading Remember Project 2025? It Never Forgot You.

When a state keeps lowering the corporate tax rate and the amount of state taxes placed upon wealthier people, that affects how much money comes into the state coffers. And look at the amount of money NC now has allocated for Opportunity Grants after the recent veto override in the latter part of 2024. Put … Continue reading NC Can Fully Fund Our Public Schools. (If It Wanted To).

The GOP-led NC legislature’s 2013 decision to end graduate degree pay bumps for new teachers entering the teaching profession was not only misguided, but another wave in the assault on public education that continues here in the Old North State. And the very person who has influenced more policy on public education since 2013, Sen. … Continue reading NC Should Restore Graduate Degree Pay