RALEIGH (May 10, 2024) – A new statewide campaign from a nonprofit group aims to build support for state legislators to significantly raise teacher pay in North Carolina. “North Carolinians value our teachers,” said Paul Fulton, Chair of Public Ed Works. “They are essential to our democracy and our economy. And they deserve our respect,… READ MORE
No. 1 in business, No. 38 in teacher pay
RALEIGH (May 8, 2024) – The good news: North Carolina is improving its pitiful starting pay for public school teachers. The bad news: North Carolina has still slipped compared to other states in average pay for all its teachers. It shouldn’t be one or the other that state legislators should emphasize – rather, they should… READ MORE
PAY our teachers!
RALEIGH (April 25, 2024) – The NC General Assembly is back this week for its so-called “short” session to make adjustments for the second year of the state budget. And boy, are there plenty of “adjustments” to make… The legislature’s analysts project a $1.4 billion revenue surplus for the 2024-25 budget year. But with federal… READ MORE
NC voters: Pay teachers better
RALEIGH (April 18, 2024) – Nearly 8 in 10 North Carolina voters support better pay raises for the state’s public school teachers next year. In a statewide poll conducted for Public Ed Works before the NC General Assembly convenes next week, 78% of NC voters said K-12 public school teachers deserve a bigger raise than… READ MORE
Teachers Talk: ‘Unsustainable to do what I’m built to do’
RALEIGH (April 10, 2024) – Sara Scanlon feels “steadily increasing pressure” to increase graduation rates among her students – whether they’ve mastered the material or not. In our latest installment of Teachers Talk, Scanlon – a high-school math teacher in Wake County in her 12th year of teaching – talks about the frustrations that creates… READ MORE
Teachers Talk: ‘We deserve a livable wage’
CONCORD (April 4, 2024) – To Natalia Mejia, teachers should be treated like the professionals they are. In the latest installment of our Teachers Talk series, the ESL teacher at C.C. Griffin STEM Magnet Middle School and NCCAT Empower NC Beginning Teacher of the Year notes how North Carolina ranked 34th in average teacher pay… READ MORE
Legislative epiphany: Teacher pay hasn’t kept up
RALEIGH (March 28, 2024) – A state House committee acknowledged this week what was painfully clear even two years ago: North Carolina’s pay for teachers hasn’t kept up with inflation. The first words of the House Select Committee on Education Reform’s findings for the “short” session of the General Assembly that begins next month note… READ MORE
Thorp and Goldstein: To rebuild public confidence, focus on teaching
By Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein CHAPEL HILL (March 13, 2024) – Much has been written about how confidence in higher education has plummeted. As devastating as they are, the surveys cited showing this crisis of confidence predate the disastrous events in December when three prominent and accomplished college presidents were ambushed in Congress about… READ MORE
‘A teacher pay mess in North Carolina’
KERNERSVILLE (March 6, 2024) – Stephanie Wallace is one masterful teacher. Wallace, who teaches English and Teacher Cadets at East Forsyth High School, has an amazing 180 former students who are teaching in classrooms across North Carolina, and several in other states. “Truly a work of the heart,” she calls it. A former NC Teaching… READ MORE
The imperative of a sound basic education
By Deanna Townsend-Smith, Ed.D. RALEIGH (March 6, 2024) – Black History Month was an opportunity to reflect on the past and to imagine the possibility and benefits of maintaining a diverse society. It was also a month when the N.C. Supreme Court heard – for the fifth time – arguments over whether the state of North… READ MORE
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