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Alexander Jones: Requiring teachers to post lessons could backfire
The North Carolina Republican Party has selected a new target. A new piece of legislation, filed last week, dictates that teachers post their lesson plans online in documents accompanied by their legal names. (And this, after the same Republican lawmakers voted to make their own official business secret from the public.) The clear intent is to intimidate. What the GOP is doing by, in effect, sending schoolteachers to the stocks is setting up another wave of vilification to stoke their base’s lust for revenge. Vilification,...
Wake leadership academies would stay early colleges under bill approved by NC House committee, amid falling out with St. Aug
A bill approved by a North Carolina House of Representatives committee would help more than 100 Wake County students continue to attend an early college. Wake County’s two leadership academies are in turmoil. The schools were sending their students to Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh to earn college credits, but they can no longer do that now that the university’s accreditation is in jeopardy and the school board has terminated its agreement with the university.
State to increase teacher pay? Asheville has NC's worst teacher turnover; cost of living
ASHEVILLE - A teacher pay raise pushed for by the governor and public school educators — whose colleagues have quit in droves in places such as Asheville — appears unlikely as lawmakers look to prioritize private school vouchers. That's according to legislators interviewed about the current budget process...
North Carolina public universities board repeals policy in vote that likely cuts diversity jobs
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s public university system board voted Thursday to repeal a nearly five-year-old diversity, equity and inclusion policy, meaning its 17 schools will likely join other major universities in cutting diversity programs and jobs. The 24-member University of North Carolina Board of Governors approved its agenda, which included the diversity policy repeal, with two members voting against the repeal. Campus changes are expected to take place at the start of the next school year. UNC System President Peter Hans said in his meeting remarks that students and faculty should be allowed to confront “competing ideas” but the role of public universities is to remain neutral on “political controversies.” “No one can speak for the whole university community on contentious issues because the university is not of one mind about anything,” Hans said.
Survey gauges teacher working conditions in Stokes and state
DANBURY — Teachers like working in Stokes County Schools, according to 2024 results of the North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions Survey. The survey is administered statewide every other year to every teacher, certified and non-certified, and licensed school-based educator such as school counselors and media cordinators, according to the survey website nctwcs.org. Survey responses are anonymous and were collected in March. ...
New Charter School Report Shows Growing Student Waitlist in North Carolina
During the 2023-24 school year, 169 of the state’s 210 charter schools reported having a waitlist, according to a new report from the Department of Public Instruction (DPI). Together, the waitlist totals more than 85,000 students. However, that number could include duplicate students on multiple waitlists, Ashley Baquero, DPI’s director of the Office of Charter […]
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