North Carolina schools are facing a double crisis thanks to the failure of state Republicans to fund public education and pay teachers and staff a fair wage.
Seemingly determined to keep his name in the news, Robinson has once again made headlines, this time for his calls to remove history and science from the elementary school curriculum.
The landmark decades-old education case landed before the North Carolina Supreme Court last Wednesday, with renewed demands toward the state adequately funding public schools.
According to the News & Observer, the cost of tuition and fees for college 50 years ago was less than $500, compared to $7,000 – $9,000 today.
Instead of divisive vitriol, our educators and children need support and resources, not political games that only use them as pawns rather than building them up in order to thrive.
Moore County’s contentious race is just one of many counties in North Carolina where the radical right seeks to control what our children are allowed to learn.
The North Carolina Association of Educators have spoken against a controversial measure aimed at overhauling the way teachers are promoted and paid in North Carolina.
New Hanover County Republican school board member Pete Wildeboer questioned the county’s social studies curriculum, specifically regarding how the 1898 Wilmington Massacre is taught.
“What’s going to happen is we’re going to have accidents with these guns,” said UNC-Chapel Hill School of Education professor Dorothy Espelage.
North Carolina teachers need real pay raises, good benefits and incentives. The state needs to properly fund schools and Republicans need to stop treating education as a political game.