By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works HALIFAX (May 9, 2025) – School leaders across North Carolina are finding ways to cope with recruiting as the latest report released by the National Education Association found that average teacher pay in the state ranks 43rd in the nation. Carolyn Mitchell is the Executive Director of Human Resources… READ MORE
NC teacher pay now ranks 43rd
RALEIGH (May 1, 2025) – What will it take to make state legislators wake up? The National Education Association released its annual report on teacher pay this week, which found that average teacher pay in North Carolina slid five spots, from 38th to 43rd in the nation. Other states are investing in public school teachers…. READ MORE
Forehead-slapper
WINSTON-SALEM (May 1, 2025) – It’s a forehead-slapper. At a time when North Carolina desperately needs more public school teachers, the Trump administration cut them off. In February, the U.S. Department of Education announced it would terminate more than $600 million in grants for teacher recruitment and retention programs in Title 1 schools – schools… READ MORE
Paltry
RALEIGH (April 17, 2025) – At a time when North Carolina is hemorrhaging teachers – when 1 in 10 teachers quit last year1 – the budget proposed by the state Senate offers them paltry raises. More than 10,000 North Carolina teachers left the classroom in 2023.2 And the state is hiring more and more uncertified teachers.3… READ MORE
Legislators step forward for teachers
By Paul Fulton, Don Martin and Doug Shackelford WINSTON-SALEM (March 12, 2025) – Last week, Public Ed Works published a piece that described a “glimmer of hope” for our public-school teachers. It covered a bill filed by Rep. Erin Pare’, R-Wake, that would invest $1.6 billion in increased pay for North Carolina teachers. The bill… READ MORE
We have a winner!
RALEIGH (March 6, 2025) – Apparently a math teacher knows how to play the odds. Erin Walsh – who has taught for more than 30 years in Onslow County Schools – won our drawing among teachers who submitted Teachers Talk videos for two tickets to the UNC-Duke basketball game on Saturday. In her video, Walsh… READ MORE
What don’t NC legislators get about public schools?
RALEIGH (February 14, 2025) – What is it that North Carolina’s state legislators don’t get? Polling results from the Public School Forum of North Carolina showed tremendous support among North Carolina voters for our public schools and teachers: •83% – and 65% of conservative Republicans – say pay for public school teachers should be increased…. READ MORE
Teachers Talk: Erin Walsh
JACKSONVILLE (February 5, 2025) – Our latest installment of Teachers Talk features Erin Walsh, a math teacher at Onslow Early College High School. Walsh explains how she retired from teaching after 29 years and returned as a part-time teacher to make more money. (She is a math teacher, after all!) “Sadly, our pay stops increasing… READ MORE
Teaching Fellows build their numbers
RALEIGH (January 30, 2025) – In a state with a severe teacher shortage,1 the NC Teaching Fellows made substantial gains this year, with 107% growth to a total of 575 students who want to become teachers. “We’re very excited about that. That’s a huge celebration for our program,” Dr. Bennett Jones, Director of the Teaching Fellows… READ MORE
The Assembly: The reading wars go to college
ASHEVILLE (January 23, 2025) – When Carson Bridges entered the classroom, she unknowingly joined a long-running fight about how to teach children to read. For decades, most elementary schools across the country, as well as colleges that train aspiring educators, followed a method called “balanced literacy.” The practice de-emphasizes phonics instruction, or lessons on the… READ MORE
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