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Getting serious about early literacy

January 19, 2023 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

RALEIGH (January 19, 2023) – For several years, state leaders have talked about improving early literacy in North Carolina through the data-based Science of Reading. But a consultant’s report to the UNC Board of Governors this week found that nine UNC System colleges of education still aren’t doing enough to teach prospective teachers how to… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2023, teachers, UNC System

K-12: Symptoms of lousy pay

September 29, 2022 by Higher Ed Works 2 Comments

RALEIGH (September 29, 2022) – Imagine you’re a ninth-grade math teacher with 36 students in your class. Beyond the histrionics and hormones that rage at that age, just how much attention can you give each of those kids? Yet with thousands of empty teacher jobs across the state, such class sizes happen even in 2022… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2022, teachers, Underfunded, Where We Stand

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

Don Martin: A middle ground on teacher pay plan?

August 10, 2022 by Higher Ed Works 3 Comments

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

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

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

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

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

Colleges to help communities ‘grow their own’ teachers

April 22, 2020 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

RALEIGH – It had nothing to do with the coronavirus, but the State Board of Community Colleges took an important step last week to expand North Carolina’s pipeline of future teachers. The board approved two new teacher-preparation transfer degrees – an associate in arts in teacher preparation and associate in science in teacher preparation –… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2020, Crisis Response, NC Community Colleges, PreK - 12 Education, teachers, UNC System

NC teacher pay: Keep going

June 12, 2019 by Higher Ed Works 1 Comment

RALEIGH – We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Teacher pay in North Carolina is headed in the right direction. The National Education Association released estimates in March that indicate average pay for North Carolina’s K-12 public school teachers now stands at $53,975, ranking North Carolina 29th among the states.1 That’s an increase… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2019, PreK - 12 Education, teachers, Where We Stand

Reward all our teachers

May 2, 2019 by Higher Ed Works Leave a Comment

RALEIGH (May 2, 2019) – The 2019-21 state budget the N.C. House is moving to approve this week continues to award healthy raises to K-12 teachers and makes some strategic investments in higher education, especially in the area of capital. But it doesn’t do nearly enough for our public colleges’ and universities’ human capital. House… READ MORE

Filed Under: 2019, At Risk, Our Opinion, PreK - 12 Education, teachers

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