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
What will it take?
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
Baccalaureate blues
By Buck Goldstein and Eric Johnson CHAPEL HILL (September 1, 2022) –Toward the end of the 2020 book Deaths of Despair, about the startling decline in life expectancy that began in the United States even before the Covid pandemic, Princeton economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case identified a troubling chasm in American society. “The sharp… READ MORE
Will the NC Chamber walk the walk?
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
Don Martin: A middle ground on teacher pay plan?
EDITOR’S NOTE: With school set to resume soon across North Carolina with thousands of teaching positions still vacant1 and a new pay plan being floated for K-12 teachers, Don Martin, retired superintendent of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, shares his views about the plan. WINSTON-SALEM (August 10, 2022) – In 2020, the Forsyth County Commissioners asked… READ MORE
NC business leaders: Fund the Leandro plan
(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 “friend of the court” brief1 is part of the 28-year-old Leandro case… READ MORE
Can No. 1 in business be No. 1 in education?
RALEIGH (July 21, 2022) – North Carolina won bragging rights last week when CNBC named it the No. 1 state in America for business. It’s an honor of which we should be proud. The network praised state leaders for putting aside sharp partisan divisions to present a united, bipartisan front when recruiting new business to… READ MORE
Teaching hard history
By Eric Johnson CHAPEL HILL (July 13, 2022) – “Hard history is not hopeless history,” said Christie Norris, borrowing a quote from historian Hasan Kwame Jeffries as she spoke to a group of teachers in Chapel Hill last month. “You can teach challenging things in a way that inspires your students.” It’s a message educators… READ MORE
A pay cut
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
Frank Daniels Jr.
RALEIGH (July 6, 2022) – Blunt. Gruff. Contrarian. The remembrances of the aptly named Frank Daniels Jr. after he died at age 90 last week all noted his forthright opinions. In fact, if there was one thing (and maybe only one thing) Daniels shared with longtime nemesis Sen. Jesse Helms, it was that you always… READ MORE
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