This is the man who is positioning himself to be the next Secretary of Education in the next Trump administration. He's working hard at it in Oklahoma. Even spending millions on bibles to place in each classroom in OK's public schools. So, would you want your taxpayer funded public schools to be forced to watch … Continue reading All Students Forced To Watch A State Super Pray During Class?

That “slide” above is from a 2019 presentation about the Teachers’ and State Employees’ Retirement System (TSERS) Retirement Planning. 2019 was before the COVID-19 pandemic. It would be interesting and predictably disheartening to question LEA HR directors about how many calls they are fielding from veteran teachers concerning retirement and early retirement requirements and possibilities. As … Continue reading Wanted: Working Conditions That Will Attract And Keep Career Teachers

Some quick reminders of how much NC's public education system relies on funding from the federal government. That is NC in that "top 10" states in federal share of public education funds. And there are a lot of public post-secondary schools in NC. Ten of those institutions are HBCUs. And NC is not very good … Continue reading NC Needs The Department Of Education

That is, if he does not destroy the department first as dictated in Project 2025. However, this guy makes Betsy DeVos look tame in some ways except DeVos's money gives her the power to finance people like... Oklahoma's Ryan Walters. If you follow national educational news, you surely would have come across Ryan Walters, the … Continue reading Want To Meet Trump’s Possible Secretary Of Education?

Just a reminder that over 90% of the budget for the federal Dept. of Education goes to Pell grants, student loans, under resourced public schools, and those who are serviced through special education. To be specific, it offers services and oversight that are desperately needed. From the overview from the federal government’s website: And that’s just … Continue reading Yes, NC. He Wants To Do Away With The Department Of Education.

The election is over. Trump attempted to publicly distance himself from a document that mentions his name 312 different times during the summer and early fall, but he doesn't need to now. So… in a continued look at the document Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership, I revisited a simple find and search on key words, terms, … Continue reading So, Now Will You Look At Project 2025?

In October of 2017, the venerable James Ford of the Public School Forum delivered the keynote address at the North Carolina English Teacher’s Association. It was more than exceptional as Ford highlighted that what hurts our schools most are external factors that are not being dealt with such as systemic poverty. Part of his presentation … Continue reading NC Has A New State Super. He Should Push To End Using EVAAS.

When Governor Cooper vetoed House Bill 10, he was trying to keep another half a billion dollars this year from going to vouchers. Vouchers would hurt rural county school systems most. In the late spring of 2023, 19 superintendents whose systems reside in 17 eastern rural counties wrote a letter asking that vouchers not be … Continue reading Even After The Election, NC Should Still Not Expand Vouchers

Despite what emotions have been expressed and/or suppressed (and will in the near future), the reality of the election will settle in, and there are a lot of people paid a lot of money to find out exactly why certain people won office with certain demographics voting for them. In a state where the republican … Continue reading Looking At Positives: What Was Won For Public Education On November 5th

“Vote for Michele Morrow. Work for Michele Morrow. And help her be successful in the effort. Because God knows we need it.”-minisoldr, a.k.a. Mark Robinson Please do not let it be lost on anyone that hardly anyone, including Michele Morrow, has denounced the Lt. Governor’s actions and comments that were reported in the recent past. And … Continue reading HB2, J6, And Minisoldr. NC Does Not Need These People In Office.