Here is the salary schedule that is in place for the 2023-2024 school year. For those who are not teachers, make sure to pay attention to years 15-24. Frozen. 10 years of the same. There is no longevity pay during these years as well. Someone who has been teaching for 24 years makes the same … Continue reading 10 Frozen Years: The NCGA’s Plan To Eliminate Career Teachers

In the summer of 2017, BEST NC released an op-ed on EdNC.org about Shamrock Gardens Elementary School and their use of “advanced roles” for educators. And the piece made reference to BEST NC’s Education Innovation Plan, a bit of which is outlined below. It’s an ingrained part of the new teacher licensure path as proposed by The … Continue reading Stop Making Excuses For Not Paying Us More – Teachers Already Have “Advanced Roles”

The Economic Policy Institute releases a report every year that tracks what is called the “teacher pay penalty.” What is that? EPI says it occurs when teachers “are paid less (in weekly wages and total compensation) than their nonteacher college-educated counterparts, and the situation has worsened considerably over time. And NC doesn’t fare well. The … Continue reading Do You Know What NC’s Teacher Pay Penalty Is?

Over a course of ten months, North Carolina public school teachers are officially employed for 215 days. Students in North Carolina typically go to school at least 180 days a school year. Most LEA’s define a contracted day of work as being eight hours for a teacher. Imagine what would happen if educators only worked … Continue reading What If Teachers Only Worked The Hours They Were Contracted For?

Think of these actions over the last ten years in North Carolina as far as public education is concerned: Teacher Pay  Removal of due-process rights for new teachers Graduate Degree Pay Bumps Removed  Push for Merit Pay  “Average” Raises Health Insurance and Benefits Changes Attacks on Teacher Advocacy Groups (NCAE)  Revolving Door of Standardized Tests  … Continue reading North Carolina Still Has a Severe Teacher & Teacher Candidate Shortage That Raleigh Deliberately Created

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 2023-2024 salary schedule, the most … Continue reading So, They Want To Take Away The Teacher Pension?

"The application period opened Thursday under new rules that allow any North Carolina family to apply for a private school voucher. As of Monday afternoon, there have been 31,603 completed Opportunity Scholarship applications, according to Kathy Hastings, a spokesperson for the North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority." T. Keung Hui reported in today's News & … Continue reading Over 31,000 Applications For Vouchers In NC, But How Many Of Those Come From Current Public School Students?

And it doesn’t even mention that sudden replacement of the chief justice who was overlooking the case this past spring. And we wonder why there are so many vacancies in our schools?

Look at the average teacher salary in North Carolina. Then look at the average pay increase that Raleigh may be giving to teachers in a certain budget cycle. Those two values are not looking at the same set of numbers. When politicians and policy makers in Raleigh talk about average salary they are counting in … Continue reading How Local Supplements For Teachers Are Propagandized By Raleigh (Average Teacher Salary Vs. Percentage Raise)

The very lawmakers who claimed that public education in North Carolina needed to be reformed because it was failing our students have had over a decade to make things better. In this last decade, North Carolina’s public school system has actually been surgically weakened by our state government instead of strengthened. Here are a few … Continue reading A Decade Of “Reforming” Public Education In NC Has Been A Complete Failure