In North Carolina, investment in public schools has declined dramatically over the last decade. Some of the deepest cuts made by the Republican-led General Assembly have resulted in worsening school facility conditions, lackluster teacher pay, and an ever-increasing staff turnover rate.
State health officials briefed a legislative oversight committee on Tuesday, highlighting the urgent need for increased funding to address critical staffing and financial deficits confronting childcare and mental health facilities in North Carolina.
North Carolina may be in the bottom five in the nation when it comes to education funding, but it sounds like Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson won’t be content until we are dead last in all the rankings.
Maurice “Mo” Green won the Democratic primary and is the former superintendent of Guilford County Schools, the third largest school district in the state. Green was also the executive director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, a foundation that awards grants supporting public education.
The public service workers who will receive the debt forgiveness are teachers, nurses, firefighters, and other public servants, who are eligible for relief.
It has become very clear, very quickly just how unqualified Morrow is to be running the state’s public schools or to be in any position of power. She’s become so toxic that the North Carolina Republican Party, who have embraced Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and his hatred of the LGBTQ+ community and just about everyone else, is now too afraid to say whether they support Morrow.
Michele Morrow, who wants to be in charge of NC’s public schools, has called teachers “groomers” and said they’re training kids in “transgender theory.”
What is the goal of our public education? Is it to prepare our children to lead in the future? Or is it to protect them from a past we all need to learn from?
The Wake County school board is contemplating the possibility of taking legal action against social media companies, contending that the psychological damage caused by their apps necessitates school intervention, according to WRAL
Since Republicans took over the New Hanover County School Board, numerous controversial policies have been pushed by right-wing board members, including a revision to their latest measure, Policy 7205.