Today the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), North Carolina’s largest public school district, announced that it will be closed on May 1st. The decision essentially allows ... Keep Reading
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A federal indictment of the NC GOP chairman, another teacher walkout, and a blow to price transparency
Robin Hayes, chairman of the NC GOP and a former congressman, has been indicted in federal court on conspiracy and bribery charges related to purported attempts to bribe NC ... Keep Reading
Is the proposed NCAE one-day teacher strike unfair to hurricane victims?
North Carolina State Superintendent Mark Johnson seems to be on the warpath to stop the proposed one-day teacher strike scheduled for May 1. I've already written about some of the ... Keep Reading
Is the NCAE trying to divide North Carolina with their socialist symbols?
The North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) is hard at work promoting their teacher walkout for May Day. The May 1 (May Day) date, often referred to as Workers' Day, is ... Keep Reading
More Bad News for NCAE
Mike Antonucci, veteran union reporter on The74 and elsewhere recently released his annual figures on changes in National Education Association (NEA) and NEA state affiliate ... Keep Reading
Does NCAE Help or Harm?
NCAE is a state affiliate of the National Education Association NCAE works to sow division among educational stakeholders NCAE opposes school choice and other education ... Keep Reading
Red4EdNC and the Declaration Dud
Most teachers take summers off, but the teachers behind Red4EdNC continue to pressure the General Assembly for more funding for traditional public schools. I’m a teacher at a ... Keep Reading
The Problem with Average in Teacher Pay
By Leah Byers There are many problems with using the national average teacher pay as the sole benchmark of success in North Carolina. Instead of aiming for the ... Keep Reading
NCAE: questions on the horizon
On May 16th close to 19,000 teachers and educators came to Raleigh to lobby legislators for higher teacher salaries and additional funding for public education. The rally, ... Keep Reading
A Few Thoughts on Teachers I Met at the Walkout
I plan on writing a more extensive report on the teacher walkout in downtown Raleigh Wednesday for the June print edition of NC Capitol Connection. There will be more content on ... Keep Reading
