Dr. Robert P. Taylor Superintendent Wake County Public School System CARY (August 28, 2024) – The start of a new school year is always a time of excitement and promise. This year, as we welcome traditional calendar schools and students back to join our year-round schools already in session, there is even more reason than… READ MORE
Choice – at the expense of public schools
RALEIGH (August 15, 2024) – Republican state legislators want to spend hundreds of millions more of our tax dollars on vouchers for students to attend private schools. Bills passed separately this spring by both the state House and Senate would boost funding for vouchers to $625 million next year and $825 million a year by… READ MORE
Public education does the public good
RALEIGH (July 11, 2024) – Amid an intense discussion of education options in North Carolina, the NC School Boards Association launched a campaign this week with a simple message: Public education does the public good. It’s a clever play on words – public schools do thousands of good things in their communities. And in a… READ MORE
Mary Ann Wolf: Strengthen the educator pipeline
By Mary Ann Wolf Executive Director Public School Forum of NC RALEIGH (July 3, 2024) – This year, my youngest child, Andrew, graduated from high school. And, yes, I am feeling all of the pride and all of the empty-nest fears that go with that. However, the part of the graduation celebrations that struck me… READ MORE
Teaching a love of North Carolina
By Eric Johnson HARKERS ISLAND (July 3, 2024) – North Carolina is one of the fastest-growing states in the country, and that’s been true for a while now. Since 2020, we’ve attracted newcomers at the rate of about 99,000 a year — the equivalent of adding an Asheville every year, according to the number crunchers… READ MORE
School choice? Or schools’ choice?
EDITOR’S NOTE: Public Ed Works shares this through a collaboration with our friends at the Public School Forum of North Carolina. Please note the statistics below on how many private schools discriminate in admissions. By Elizabeth Paul and Mary Ann Wolf Public School Forum of NC RALEIGH (June 13, 2024) – Decisions about education are… READ MORE
Nonprofit urges support for better NC teacher pay
RALEIGH (May 10, 2024) – A new statewide campaign from a nonprofit group aims to build support for state legislators to significantly raise teacher pay in North Carolina. “North Carolinians value our teachers,” said Paul Fulton, Chair of Public Ed Works. “They are essential to our democracy and our economy. And they deserve our respect,… READ MORE
No. 1 in business, No. 38 in teacher pay
RALEIGH (May 8, 2024) – The good news: North Carolina is improving its pitiful starting pay for public school teachers. The bad news: North Carolina has still slipped compared to other states in average pay for all its teachers. It shouldn’t be one or the other that state legislators should emphasize – rather, they should… READ MORE
Will legislators listen to Cooper? Good luck.
RALEIGH (May 2, 2024) – In a state where 10,000+ teachers – 11.5% – left its public schools in 2023,1 Gov. Roy Cooper proposed a budget last week to rebuild North Carolina’s teacher pipeline. But will Republican state legislators listen? Good luck with that. Instead, they’re in love with vouchers funded by taxpayers to subsidize… READ MORE
PAY our teachers!
RALEIGH (April 25, 2024) – The NC General Assembly is back this week for its so-called “short” session to make adjustments for the second year of the state budget. And boy, are there plenty of “adjustments” to make… The legislature’s analysts project a $1.4 billion revenue surplus for the 2024-25 budget year. But with federal… READ MORE
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