Remember this from 2013? (From a 2013 NCAE Report) : It says, The Appropriations Act of 2013 (“budget bill”) strips away career status from teachers and school administrators and denies the opportunity for career status to teachers in the pipeline. Career status ensures an opportunity to be heard and a reasonable basis for being dismissed or demoted. When … Continue reading We Could Have All Lost Career Status Last Summer If Not For What We Did in 2013 – Act Now For Tomorrow

Stop extending massive tax cuts to corporations and wealthy people. Maybe we as a state should not keep extending more corporate tax cuts for businesses and people who make significantly more than the average North Carolinian. We haven’t really seen the trickle-down effect from that here in our schools. Do away with the Opportunity Grants. We … Continue reading Before a Policy Maker Claims That “We Will Have To Raise Taxes On People To Fully Fund NC Schools,” Tell Him To Consider These Measures First

It is not often that two teams from the same conference in the state's largest athletic classification play each other again in the first round of the state playoffs. What is even more rare is that those two teams literally played each other the week before as the final game of the regular season for … Continue reading November 16, 2018 – What Could Be The Largest Student Section in West Forsyth History

Yesterday the News & Observer printed an article that framed how the effect of public school teacher advocacy helped break the GOP supermajority in the NC General Assembly. T. Keung Hui reported, Organizers of the historic May 16 teachers march in Raleigh say the words of the protesters became reality this week when North Carolina … Continue reading Yes, Teachers Did “Remember in November” – There’s Also a November in 2020

If you grew up in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, you might be familiar with a landmark television show called Northern Exposure which aired on CBS on Mondays during the 10 PM time slot. It was about a quirky, eccentric small Alaskan town called Cicely which had literally secured the services of an Ivy-League trained physician … Continue reading Become An Ordained Teacher Online Now! – Sen. Chad Barefoot’s SB599 Becomes Reality With “North Carolina Teachers of Tomorrow”

No. Not everything that public school advocates would have wanted from last night's elections came to fruition. But it was a very good night for public schools. 1.Super majorities were broken.  Simply put, the governor now has veto power. Yes, Gov. Cooper could always veto a bill, but now it cannot be simply overridden automatically. … Continue reading Nine Reasons Why The 2018 Election Results Were Great For Public Education in North Carolina

November 5th is “National Love Your Red Hair Day”. I don’t have red hair, but I live in a house where everyone else has red hair. Maybe that qualifies me to talk about living with red heads and the boundless recessive genes they either display or carry. Simply put, I have a Ginger Brigade in my … Continue reading National Red Head Day With My Ginger Brigade

When Phil Berger and Tim Moore held a press conference last May in which they feigned surprise and indignation at the thought that teachers would even consider rallying on May 16th, it was rather apparent that it was a scripted endeavor. From WFMY.com: During the conference, the two said, “Republicans in the General Assembly made … Continue reading Our Six-Year Pre-Existing Condition: The Long, Deliberate, Slow Attack on North Carolina’s Public Education System

“Get Up” and vote. It's Election Day. Just “Get Up” and vote. Immigration “policies,” Supreme Court appointees, exiting from multi-lateral agreements and treaties, Muslim bans, tariffs, mass shootings on schools and media outlets, partisan politics before principles, etc. – these are all part of isolationist nightmares, bad dreams that have become reality and more than … Continue reading “Get Up” – And Vote! Playing R.E.M. At The Ballot Box

One would hope that the current General Assembly is a little scared of us public school teachers and our supporters. Remember what happened May 16th. And they should be very concerned; aside from the Women’s March of 2017, this might have been the largest demonstration on the NCGA in history. What had originally looked like … Continue reading November 6th Is Another Day To March And Rally For Our Schools – At The Ballot Box.