From the News & Observer this month: The average salary for North Carolina public school teachers has reached more than $60,000 a year for the first time ever, a new state report says. Figures released in March by the state Department of Public Instruction estimate the average teacher salary to now be $60,323 — up … Continue reading Average Teacher Pay In NC Is Over 60K? Bullsh**!

And yes, many have brought it up in class to ask if it was true. Why? Because it affects them directly. AP Exams (administered by the College Board) are not inexpensive. That's more expensive than the SAT and ACT. And that's is just for one test. Many students take multiple APs in a school year … Continue reading Students In North Carolina Are Talking About This Bill

The powers that rule in the North Carolina General Assembly have been waging a war against public schools in our state for the last four years. Under the guise of “reform,” GOP conservatives driven by ALEC-crafted policies have successfully enabled and instituted privatization efforts in many forms: unregulated charter school development, expansive growth of unproven … Continue reading The North Carolina General Assembly’s Intent: Make Veteran Teachers Extinct

Call it for what it is: book banning. Ten out-of-touch people who have no children in public schools fired up by an ultra-conservative mouthpiece and who have not read an entire work of literature in the last ten years could literally decide if your students can access a book in their own school library. Any … Continue reading “Promoting Wholesome Content For Students” Is The NCGA’s Way Of Banning Books In NC

If you are a parent of a student in public schools who takes an AP class, then you might need to see this: According to the WRAL report, 760,000 students in our NC public schools fit the definition of "economically disadvantaged" and many of them take AP courses as a way to go ahead and … Continue reading Now The NCGA Doesn’t Want To Help With AP Tests?

The most current numbers for the following: Average Gas Price Average Milk Price Average Egg Prices Average Bread Price Consumer Confidence Presidential Approval Rating Federal Interest Rate Dow Jones Index Inflation Rate NC Tax Rates NC Minimum Wage Unemployment Rates Unemployment Benefits Number of People Who Enrolled in ACA coverage Number of Students in NC … Continue reading April 2025- Numbers To Consider

The North Carolina Senate just released its version of the next biennial state budget. The House already has set forth its version. The governor has also released his. Supposedly, they will come to an "agreement" for a state budget in this long session. Details of the last biennial NC Senate budget released two years ago … Continue reading Phil’s Giving A Couple More Minecraft Big Mac Combos A Month To Us Teachers As A Raise!

On April 3rd, the Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, sent all public school district superintendents a letter that requested each to sign a written agreement to not have any DEI curriculum (as defined by her) whatsoever in its schools. If districts do not sign and abide by the decrees set forth in the letter, then … Continue reading “Still Teaching. Still Caring. Still Not Signing” – A Superintendent Responds To McMahon’s DEI Demands

When I came back as a “new” teacher twenty years ago for my second tenure in NC, Phil Berger was not in power. And as a “new” teacher the following was freely given to new teachers as part of the agreement to be employed by the state of North Carolina: A salary schedule that had … Continue reading If New Teachers Got Now What Veteran Teachers Got Then, NC Would Not Need To Recruit Teacher Candidates