If you teach long enough in the public schools, you will be fortunate enough to come across some great individuals who coach sports teams all the while teaching these very players lessons of life and success even in the wake of defeat. And I want to scream that they need to have much higher stipends. … Continue reading Public School Coaches Need Much Higher Stipends – ALL OF THEM!

Remember that our NC General Assembly has refused to fully fund public schools according to the LEANDRO decision. And as it stands, NC ranks near the very bottom of state rankings for funding public schools. Then there is the one-edged sword that the NCGA wields over local LEAs when they dictate mandates for public school … Continue reading Post-Helene “Revenue Drop” Will Hurt Schools Even More

“We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education."Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. There exists no EOC or standardized test that can measure what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks about in the above quote.

Peter Greene, a teacher/writer who writes both a highly regarded blog Curmudgucation and regular column for Forbes.com, had this very good post back in 2021. When is the last time that you heard about Common Core being the downfall of our public schools? Probably when it was a way to gaslight issues to use public schools as a … Continue reading From Common Core To CRT To Woke Politics: Years Of Educational Reform Straw Men In North Carolina

Below is a table that tallies the top step salaries for teachers with a Master’s Degree in North Carolina without adjustment for inflation. It starts with 2006-2007 school year and ends with the most recently completed school year of 2023-2024. Imagine being a teacher who starts in each of those years looking at the salary … Continue reading A History Of Not Raising Teachers’ Pay In NC: 2006-2024

Just do a search on the internet for "Jefferson Griffin challenge" and you will get an ever growing number of sustainable hits on the farce that is Jefferson Griffin's attempt to steal an election to the North Carolina Supreme Court. He is trying to have 60,000 votes thrown out for reasons that still defy the … Continue reading Are You On The Griffin List?

One of the best benefits of being a veteran teacher and one of the best ways to help people commit to a full career to the teaching profession is the pension plan. Retirement is based on the average of four highest paid years of a teacher’s career. According to the 2024-2025 salary schedule, the most … Continue reading So, They Want To Take Away Teacher Pension?

Consider that North Carolina has routinely for the last ten-plus years ranked at the bottom of states in the country at funding its public schools. And then consider how much money has been steered into unregulated private school vouchers here in North Carolina, how much corporate taxes have been lowered over the last decade, and … Continue reading Funding NC’s Public Schools: Attendance Vs. Enrollment

Here is the salary schedule that is in place for the 2024-2025 school year. For those who are not teachers, make sure to pay attention to years 15-24. Frozen. Like that precipitation outside in many NC homes right now. 10 years of the same. There is no longevity pay during these years as well. Someone … Continue reading There Are Other Things FROZEN In NC Such As Teacher Salaries

Look closely at what the new NC State Treasurer says in this recent report. “We are going to have to do a number of uncomfortable things. With a $507 million shortfall, the uncomfortable pieces are now inevitable. The obvious one is premiums. Those have been held flat for a decade, and I commend Treasurer Folwell … Continue reading When The Insurance Premiums Teachers Pay Keep Up With Inflation, But Salaries Don’t