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Leandro: Time to pony up

September 8, 2022 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

RALEIGH (September 8, 2022) – Lawyers butted heads before the NC Supreme Court last week over whether the court can order $785 million in spending to meet the state’s constitutional promise to North Carolina students.1 After 28 years of lawyers arguing, it’s long past time for the state to pony up. Beyond the dollars, the… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2022, Leandro, Our Opinion

What will it take?

September 8, 2022 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

RALEIGH (September 8, 2022) – High-stakes arguments are underway – as they have been for 28 years – in the Leandro case about funding for basic education in our state. What is it about the NC General Assembly that compels our legislators to ignore the educational needs of our most valuable assets: Our children? Our… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2022, Leandro, Our Opinion

4,400 invisible teachers

September 1, 2022 by Higher Ed Works 3 Comments

RALEIGH (September 1, 2022) – More than 1.3 million students started the public school year in North Carolina this week.  Yet more than 4,400 teachers who should have been at the front of those children’s classes weren’t there, because school officials couldn’t fill the vacancies. And 3,600 more teachers across the state still aren’t fully… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2022, Leandro, PreK - 12 Education, Teacher Preparation, teachers

Will the NC Chamber walk the walk?

August 17, 2022 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK (August 11, 2022) – There were lots of nice words at the NC Chamber’s annual Education and the Workforce Conference last week – lots of great ideas shared. Which made it that much more difficult to square with the Chamber’s actions the week before.  First, though, some of those ideas: Durham Tech… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2022, At Risk, Leandro, Our Opinion

NC business leaders: Fund the Leandro plan

August 4, 2022 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

(August 4, 2022) RALEIGH – More than 50 North Carolina business leaders asked the NC Supreme Court last week to uphold a lower court’s order last fall directing state officials to transfer more than $700 million to improve the state’s public schools. The ā€œfriend of the courtā€ brief1 is part of the 28-year-old Leandro case… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2022, At Risk, Leandro, Our Opinion

A pay cut

July 6, 2022 by Higher Ed Works 4 Comments

RALEIGH (July 6, 2022) – With the 2022-23 budget they unveiled and adopted last week, state legislators simply aren’t taking care of their people – our people. The state has a $6.5 billion revenue surplus this year. Let that sink in: $6,524,141,444.00.1  Yet this state continues to systematically underfund public education. By one estimate, the… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2022, At Risk, Budget, Leandro, Our Opinion, teachers

$6.2B NC surplus: Make education a priority again

May 18, 2022 by Higher Ed Works 3 Comments

RALEIGH (May 18, 2022) – As the NC General Assembly reconvenes today with a $6.2 billion state budget surplus, it’s time to make education a priority again in North Carolina. Officials announced last week that the state will take in $4.24 billion more than projected in the budget year that ends June 30 – a… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2022, At Risk, Leandro, NC Community Colleges, PreK - 12 Education, UNC System

Our hopes for 2022

January 6, 2022 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

RALEIGH (January 6, 2022) – North Carolina heaved a collective sigh of relief in 2021 with approval of the first state budget in three years. But enormous issues remain to be resolved in 2022. We hope, of course, that we at least reach sufficient herd immunity and vaccines for North Carolinians to live with the… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2022, Leandro, Our Opinion

Leandro: A quarter-century of bickering

November 15, 2021 by Higher Ed Works 2 Comments

RALEIGH (November 15, 2021) – Robb Leandro was an 8th-grader at West Hoke Middle School in 1994, when the lawsuit over funding for poor North Carolina school districts that bears his name was filed. Twenty-seven years later, he’s 42 years old, with a family and children of his own, and practices law in Raleigh.1  Burley… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2021, Budget, Leandro, Our Opinion, PreK - 12 Education

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