The following was also published in the Winston-Salem Journal on April 6th, 2025. The 16-million-dollar deficit identified in a recent WS/FCS budget audit surely is a matter of concern. Understandably, that shortfall along with a similar one just three years ago immediately causes screams for immediate budget cuts and reallocation of funds. But it is … Continue reading “Our Elected (LOCAL) Officials Should Be Willing To Fight For Our Schools”

For you people in Winston-Salem / Forsyth County concerned about the supposed impending cuts to our public schools, this is another way to let our elected officials know they should fight for our students and educators. This petition allows you to send a letter directly to each WSFCS board member and let them all know … Continue reading WSFCS Advocates – Help With This Letter Campaign!

As being reported by multiple news outlets such as this one: The most powerful politician in the Senate, Republican leader Phil Berger, is sponsoring the so-called DAVE Act. DAVE is an acronym for a new Division of Accountability, Value, and Efficiency. It would be led by the state auditor, Republican Dave Boliek. That's comforting. Not really. … Continue reading DAVE & AI: NC’s Own Version of DOGE. That’s What Berger Wants.

Would love to see Thom Tillis campaign against her. And her against him.

For those lawmakers in North Carolina who are still attached to using standardized tests as the benchmark for school effectiveness, then this is for them. And there was one particular part of the report that was interesting, espcially in North Carolina where we just administered the ACT to all high juniors as a measure of … Continue reading GPA – Not The ACT. NC Should Stop Forcing All Juniors To Take That Test.

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