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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

$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

2021: Return to not quite normal

December 29, 2021 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

RALEIGH (December 29, 2021) – 2021 was slightly less chaotic than 2020, with distribution of vaccines that temporarily calmed the coronavirus pandemic before new variants began to emerge. The state also saw its first new budget in three years, with much-needed raises for higher education faculty and staff and generous investments in capital projects. It’s… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2021, Adult Learners, Budget, Crisis Response, Dispatches from the Classroom, Governance, Latinx, myFutureNC, NC Community Colleges, Nursing Series, PreK - 12 Education, Remembrances

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

Dreaming of more teachers of color

November 4, 2021 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

CHAPEL HILL (November 4, 2021) – It’s so important to have someone who looks like you at the front of the class. That’s what the DREAM program – Diverse and Resilient Educators Advised through Mentorship – aims to provide in the Durham Public Schools. DREAM is a partnership between the School of Education at UNC-Chapel… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2021, Diversity, Latinx, PreK - 12 Education

Becoming better teachers

October 28, 2021 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

Each fall, UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz co-teaches a seminar for graduate students – professors of the future – called ‘The American Professoriate.’ The class focuses on the role of public universities. This year, he teaches with Matt Springer and Buck Goldstein from the School of Education and Dean Suzanne Barbour of the Graduate… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2021, Dispatches from the Classroom, PreK - 12 Education, UNC Chapel Hill

2 + 2 = Teachers!

August 27, 2021 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

RALEIGH (August 27, 2021) – State education leaders sealed an agreement this week to expand a program for aspiring teachers to start their education at a North Carolina community college and finish at one of the state’s public universities. Thomas Stith III, President of the NC Community College System, and UNC System President Peter Hans… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2021, NC Community Colleges, PreK - 12 Education, Teacher Preparation, teachers, UNC System

CEOs: A moral obligation to our youngest readers

April 14, 2021 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

CARY (April 14, 2021) – In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and learning losses among the state’s most vulnerable students, North Carolina needs to double down on early-childhood education and literacy, a group of prominent CEOs said today. “COVID learning losses have impacted our youngest students the hardest – and particularly our students of… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2021, At Risk, Pre-K, PreK - 12 Education

Don Flow: The case for NC education investments

February 4, 2021 by Higher Ed Works 11 Comments

EDITOR’S NOTE: As state legislators returned to Raleigh recently for their 2021 session, Winston-Salem businessman Don Flow shared the following thoughts with legislative leaders. By Don Flow America is in the midst of enormous turmoil, with rural whites and urban blacks caught in the same undercurrent. Although they express their frustration and anger in different ways… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2021, At Risk, Budget, Focus on Quality, Our Opinion, Pre-K, PreK - 12 Education

HELP WANTED: Teachers of Color

December 16, 2020 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

RALEIGH – What’s wrong with this picture? Last year, 53% of the public school students in North Carolina were students of color – yet nearly 80% of their teachers were white.1  “North Carolina’s educator workforce has been unable to match this rich diversity,” says a new report from the Developing a Representative and Inclusive Vision… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2020, Diversity, PreK - 12 Education, Teacher Preparation, teachers

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