A new report released earlier this month by the National Education Association (NEA) had some good news – and bad – regarding teacher pay in North Carolina, The News & Observer reported.
North Carolina’s two-year budget was passed last year after months of Republican delays – and without Gov. Roy Cooper’s signature – but the legislature is now back for this year’s “short session,” which will give lawmakers the chance to tinker with the budget.
In the midst of the UNC System Board of Governors actively considering removing Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI) programs from North Carolina public universities, Guilford County Schools’ (GCS) Office for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion is making strides to make sure that every student is included.
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.”