Late last night, amidst legislative maneuvering and name calling, House Republicans overrode Governor Perdue’s veto of SB-727 and voted to stop the state from collecting membership ... Keep Reading
Education Editorial: long on rhetoric, short on facts
“It’s time for the Republican legislators to stop deluding themselves about the adequacy of their funding for public education.” Winston Salem Journal Editorial, November 15, ... Keep Reading
Class Size Ratios: Time to Throw Away an Outdated Idea
For years a certain unquestioned assumption has governed North Carolina public schools: smaller class sizes in the lower grades will help boost student achievement. The formal ... Keep Reading
School Job Losses in Large LEAs Contradict Left’s Talking Points
An August 31st press release by the Department of Public Instruction declared that this fall, the public schools will eliminate more than 6,300 positions and layoff more than ... Keep Reading
Mayer Flails – and Fails in New Yorker Article
Add Jane Mayer to the list of liberals trolling the backwaters of North Carolina politics desperately looking for evidence to validate the lefts’s predetermined conclusion that Art ... Keep Reading
Dem Budget Tour Brings Everything But the Truth
Earlier this week House and Senate Democrats began a state wide budget tour to criticize the Republican-authored state budget and job losses in state government and the public ... Keep Reading
What You Don’t Hear in the Discussion About Teacher Layoffs
Remember this figure: 18,000 plus. That figure, according to Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue and House minority leader Joe Hackney ( D-Orange ), – is the number of public school jobs ... Keep Reading
NCAE: Pick-a-Fact is Not a Useful Strategy
The North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) is mad. And they want you to be too. For the past several weeks, the organization has been decrying the impact of state budget ... Keep Reading
Teaching Fellows: A Closer Look
Recently the News & Observer ran a story and an editorial taking issue with my comments recommending the elimination of the Teaching Fellows program. This article is a response ... Keep Reading
Who are the Friends of Public Education?
"We have always indicated to the people of North Carolina and indeed the world that North Carolina would never abandon its commitment to improve public education and to have the ... Keep Reading
