The North Carolina General Assembly is supposedly coming back to meet for a two-day session and take up a "stimulus" bill that would appropriate federal money for COVID-19 relief. Alex Granados highlighted this brief session and its expectations in an article posted yesterday on EdNC.org. It is an important piece of reporting. Granados specifies the … Continue reading They Are Holding “Hold Harmless” Hostage

This tweet shows you all you need to know about Phil Berger's (and his cronies') commitment to fully funding public education according to a court ruling. And who is @MyNCSenate? A little over two months and you could help vote these people out of power.

This past month Rep. David Lewis abruptly resigned from his office after pleading guilty to federal charges of siphoning money from political funds to personal funds. In the actual documentation concerning the charges, what Lewis did was simply change a little in the nomenclature of a name so that it appeared he was making legit … Continue reading A “Space” And A Comma: Rep. David Lewis’s Lesson In Teaching Editing And Proofreading Skills

Funny that just a few days after Sen. Phil Berger posted this as electioneering propaganda that this report is released on WFMYnews2.com: It makes reference to a report from smartestdollar.com about teacher pay gaps in comparison to other occupations with comparable education requirements. The report lists large, small, and mid-size metropolitan areas that have the … Continue reading How About This Ranking, Sen. Berger? About The Pay Gap For NC Teachers

Senator Phil Berger's "Press Shop" recently has been parading a new post that grossly misrepresents NC's ranking in the Southeast and the nation as far as its treatment of public education, specifically the money spent on K-12 schools, money per pupil spent, and average salaries. It makes reference to this recent July 2020 publication from … Continue reading More Like Fool’s Gold: Looking At Berger’s Claims of “High-Octane Growth” Within NEA’s State Rankings

I am not the teacher I am now without the unselfish mentoring of Judy Oakley. I am not the parent I am now without the example of Judy Oakley. Most importantly, I am not the person I am now without witnessing the way that Judy Oakley lived her life. In the past couple of days … Continue reading Judy Arnn Oakley Was The Best Of Us. She Still is.

An “Opportunity Grant” in North Carolina is worth up to $4200 a year to cover (or help cover) tuition at a non-public participating school. Currently NC is on pace to give almost a billion dollars to vouchers within the next ten years. This is a system that was considered the least transparent in the entire country … Continue reading State Financed Discrimination & Homophobia: North Carolina’s Voucher System

The two largest college campuses in the state have completely gone to online instruction and asked resident students to go home for the foreseeable future. UNC - Chapel Hill did it within just a couple of weeks after school convened. When that happened, NC State was still "safe" except for a couple of clusters. At … Continue reading School Systems MUST Be Truthful About COVID-19 To Teachers & Students

Dear Rep. Horn, In the years that I and many colleagues have been in active advocacy for North Carolina's public schools, few people in Raleigh have demanded attention as much as you. Your statements, your voting record, the bills you have sponsored, the reforms you have spearheaded, and the claims you have made over the … Continue reading An Open Letter To Rep. Craig Horn About His Claim That “NC students have lost a year of educational progress”

When the North Carolina General Assembly concluded its 2019 session, it left without passing a budget. What that meant was that schools this past school year had to operate on the same amount of recurring funds that the last budget had allocated. Schools this year are still operating on that same budget. What should also … Continue reading North Carolina Must Hold Public School Budgets Harmless