Editorial: House makes foolish gamble with lottery
Raleigh’s News & Observer joins the growing list of voices to condemn the state House’s decision to attempt squeeze more money out of the vulnerable by increasing lottery advertising efforts to...
View ArticleEditorial: House budget another bad bet
The House plan to fund teacher raises with increased lottery revenues continues to meet with widespread derision. ICYMI, the Greensboro News & Record weighed in over the weekend: “When it comes to...
View ArticleEditorials condemn amendment allowing charter school secrecy on salaries
In case you missed it over the weekend, the Wilmington StarNews had another good editorial concerning the efforts of some of the state’s public charter schools to keep the salaries they pay secret and...
View ArticleTo get to a budget deal, stop the 2015 tax cuts
This morning’s edition of Setting the record straight over on the main Policy Watch website has some rare praise for the surprisingly progressive rhetoric emanating from state budget negotiations this...
View ArticleHuge hidden change to education funding to cause big problems for local...
Voices of concern are growing louder as more and more individuals and institutions directly impacted by the new state budget signed by Gov. McCrory yesterday come to grasp what is actually in the 260...
View ArticleTeacher pay raises: The real price comes into sharper focus
The verdict on the confusing new pay structure enacted by the General Assembly and the Governor’s office continues to draw, at best, mixed reviews. As Raleigh’s News & Observer noted — somewhat...
View ArticleState Board of Ed chair directs NC charter schools to disclose all employee...
Just weeks after passage of a bill that allows publicly-funded charter schools to hide the salaries of their for-profit education management companies’ employees, State Board of Education chair Bill...
View ArticleBack to School Series – Labor Day
This is part of a Back to School blog series that highlight various issues to be aware of as the 2014-15 school year kicks off. (See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5) It’s that time of year...
View ArticleMore fuzzy math from leaders on teacher pay
In case you missed it, one of this morning’s “must reads” is a story posted late yesterday by WRAL reporter Mark Binker about the ongoing controversy over North Carolina’s muddled and troubled new...
View ArticleNC General Assembly: Visiting more indignities on teachers, wasting money on...
The follies of the North Carolina General Assembly and its shortsighted attitudes toward public education (and public service in general) are neatly illustrated by two stories in this morning’s...
View ArticleLast year’s teacher pay raise was anything but “brilliant”
Raleigh’s News & Observer features a rather strange op-ed this morning by a Duke University Master’s student who once gave teaching a try and who is also the husband of a current, relatively young...
View ArticleMcCrory: “Marketability” of skills should be factor in teacher pay
Raleigh’s News & Observer has obtained a recording of a virtual, two-minute talk that Gov. Pat McCrory gave in January to GOP legislators (the Guv was apparently fighting a cold — what he called...
View ArticleSolution to looming teacher shortage: Higher pay
A post today at the website Higher Education Works neatly cuts through the b.s. today on the issue of what North Carolina must do to address the shortage of quality schoolteachers – now and in the...
View ArticleEditorials blast ideological attacks on public education
Today is the first day of the 2015-16 school year in lots of places throughout North Carolina and editorial pages across the state this past weekend welcomed back the return of teachers and students...
View ArticleEducation infographic neatly sums up state education policy debate
North Carolina middle school teacher Erica Speaks who blogs at Teaching Speaks Volumes posted this powerful, information-packed and sobering infographic over the weekend.
View ArticleThese two graphs show why June Atkinson is right and Tim Moore is wrong about...
As reported here on Wednesday by N.C. Policy Watch Education Reporter Billy Ball, North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson is calling for state teachers to receive a 10% raise....
View ArticleTwo great editorials decry the disinvestment in our teachers and schools
Raleigh’s News & Observer has featured two outstanding editorials on the subject of public education in recent days. Number One is in this morning’s paper and it’s entitled “Sorry teachers, your...
View ArticleEditorial: Stop putting tax cuts and conservative ideology ahead of decent...
It’s a theme that’s been invoked and echoed repeatedly across North Carolina in recent years, but it deserves to be raised up once more today in anticipation of the 2016 legislative session that...
View ArticleTwo powerful news stories explain why NC’s disinvestment in public ed is a...
WRAL TV will debut a new documentary tonight about North Carolina’s dwindling commitment to funding public education entitled “Grading Teacher Pay.” This is from a lengthy article summarizing the...
View ArticleCould NC teachers get extension on master’s degree pay?
Ann Doss Helms of the Charlotte Observer reports that there’s a move afoot to allow teachers who are currently pursuing master’s degrees extra time to complete their degrees and receive the 10% boost...
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