1. It’s a framework. It has not been passed.
2. It refuses to offer back pay to teachers from this past year.
3. Budgets in North Carolina are biennially written.
4. The people who put it together work only a fraction of the time that teachers have this past year.
5. Having already taken away graduate degree pay, longevity pay, and due process rights, these potential raises do not offest what has been taken away from teachers.
6. It doesn’t really do anything for fully funding the public school system.
7. The largest percentage raises are for beginning teachers and not veteran teachers.

Below is what was reported today as the proposed budget conference teacher salary schedule. Make of it what you will.