If you are an educator in any capacity who will work with multiple students, please get vaccinated. From CNN.com today: "At least three of the educators were unvaccinated, Fusco told WFOR. The vaccination status of the fourth wasn’t immediately known." The push to make the beginning of the school year as "normal" as possible is … Continue reading Cautionary Tale For Educators To Get Vaxxed

The NCGOP House members just recently dropped its latest version of a budget proposal. 664 pages. Do not get the dates confused. The original "bill" was started on Feb. 18th, 2021. This last version includes supplementary info strategically released on August 9th. Late in the afternoon no less. There is an interesting part of this … Continue reading So They Want To Restore Graduate Degree Pay?

North Carolina is still without a new budget. Surprise. But there are many requests that have been made that would definitely be a waste of tax-payer money. Within this report on recent budget requests is an interesting item. It has some items from Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson. Specifically this: That's $120,000 for an "Education Advisor." … Continue reading The Teacher Bashing, Science Denying, Authentic History Disputant, And Leading Witch Hunter Needs An “Educational Advisor” For $120,000 / Year Of Tax Payer Money

Throughout North Carolina, every local school board is wrestling with how to manage maintaining safety and reopening school buildings trying to balance what resources they have with the needs of communities while anticipating how this pandemic will continue to play out with the more transmissible Delta variant. They are having to rush to give answers … Continue reading These Past 18 Months Have Shown Us That Local School Board Elections Are That Important For Every NC School System

With the "Delta" variant of the coronavirus surging in NC, the Centers for Disease Control issued new guidelines for mask wearing. Of course since it does not collide with Sen. Phil Berger's narrative to downplay the virus, he conveniently dismisses it with the ever powerful "raw cookie dough" argument. The irony here is that Berger … Continue reading Sen Berger’s “Science” Lesson About Raw Cookie Dough

It appears that many school boards will be meeting this week to make decisions about protocols for school openings including my own school district. And when big meetings occur, social media and email campaigns start up in full force and not all of the opinions out there are based on valid information and much seems … Continue reading Dear Local School Board Member, Put Science Over Politics

If there is anything that is consistent as to what the state superintendent has stated about this past year concerning the effects of the pandemic on public schools, then it can be summed up in one word: convenience. About a month ago, Supt. Catherine Truitt co-authored an op-ed that appeared in EdNC.org entitled "Call ‘learning … Continue reading Dear State Supt., NC Needs An Educational Leader – Not A Politician Of Convenience

Yesterday Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson "officially" named the members of his "indoctrination" task force to make sure that students in NC public schools do not become influenced by progressive views of society coming from teachers. If you have not read about the proceedings of the task force and its lack of transparency, this is a … Continue reading About That F.A.C.T.S. Task Force Member List

The GOP-led NC legislature’s 2013 decision to end graduate degree pay bumps for new teachers entering the teaching profession was not only misguided, but another wave in the assault on public education that continues here in the Old North State. And the very person who has influenced more policy on public education since 2013, Sen. … Continue reading Graduate Degrees Do Matter & NC Should Restore Graduate Degree Pay

As August approaches, teachers will begin a new school year and their "step" will increase by another year. That "step" is the number of years served in schools. Not long ago, teachers who served the state for at least ten years would receive what was called "longevity" pay as part of their commitment to public … Continue reading Remember Longevity Pay? It’s Now Seven Years That Teachers Have Been Denied.