RALEIGH (February 14, 2025) – What is it that North Carolina’s state legislators don’t get? Polling results from the Public School Forum of North Carolina showed tremendous support among North Carolina voters for our public schools and teachers: •83% – and 65% of conservative Republicans – say pay for public school teachers should be increased…. READ MORE
Teachers Talk: Erin Walsh
JACKSONVILLE (February 5, 2025) – Our latest installment of Teachers Talk features Erin Walsh, a math teacher at Onslow Early College High School. Walsh explains how she retired from teaching after 29 years and returned as a part-time teacher to make more money. (She is a math teacher, after all!) “Sadly, our pay stops increasing… READ MORE
Teaching Fellows build their numbers
RALEIGH (January 30, 2025) – In a state with a severe teacher shortage,1 the NC Teaching Fellows made substantial gains this year, with 107% growth to a total of 575 students who want to become teachers. “We’re very excited about that. That’s a huge celebration for our program,” Dr. Bennett Jones, Director of the Teaching Fellows… READ MORE
The Assembly: The reading wars go to college
ASHEVILLE (January 23, 2025) – When Carson Bridges entered the classroom, she unknowingly joined a long-running fight about how to teach children to read. For decades, most elementary schools across the country, as well as colleges that train aspiring educators, followed a method called “balanced literacy.” The practice de-emphasizes phonics instruction, or lessons on the… READ MORE
Hopes for 2025
RALEIGH (January 2, 2025) – North Carolina’s General Assembly seems to consider itself all-powerful. Well here’s hoping that changes with the new year. Republicans lost their supermajority in the state House by a single seat in November’s elections, giving Gov. Josh Stein slightly more bargaining power with the legislature than his predecessor Roy Cooper had…. READ MORE
2024: An onslaught on public education
RALEIGH (December 26, 2024) – 2024 marked a continuing – and at times audacious – eating away at public schools in North Carolina. Governing boards appointed directly or indirectly by state legislators drove away a chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill, asserted control over athletic conference switches, and did away with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs at… READ MORE
Green on teacher pay: Voices of the many
RALEIGH (December 19, 2024) – As he mounts an effort to raise teacher pay in North Carolina, incoming State Superintendent Maurice “Mo” Green knows it will take a team. In any of the things he will do as state superintendent, he says in the accompanying video, “I’m not going to be doing them by myself…. READ MORE
Creating an Equitable Future for North Carolina’s Schools: The Case for a Diverse Teacher Workforce
By Camry Wilborn-Mercer Dudley Flood Center for Educational Equity & Opportunity RALEIGH (November 27, 2024) – If North Carolina is serious about creating an education system that serves all students, then building a diverse, representative teacher workforce must be a central priority. Research, history, and lived experience show that teacher diversity enhances academic success while… READ MORE
Mo Green is walking into a perfect storm
By Tom Campbell RALEIGH (November 14, 2024) – With the elections behind us, we need to shift our focus to North Carolina issues. Without question one of our highest priorities is helping our neighbors in Western North Carolina affected by Hurricane Helene. But there’s another perfect storm brewing – in public education. It is widely… READ MORE
Public dollars belong in public schools
RALEIGH (September 13, 2024) – Public dollars belong in public schools. So in what perverse world is it OK to divert hundreds of millions of tax dollars to private schools while denying inflation-adjusted raises to public school teachers? Apparently, it’s the peculiar world of the North Carolina General Assembly. Legislators voted this week to devote… READ MORE
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