Teachers in North Carolina might want to educate
themselves on the state’s budget and subsequent reforms before making wild
accusations like the attendees in Raleigh on “Moral Mondays.” These bused in fools are regurgitating the
bile of their puppet masters. The point
of distress for many of these protesters is that NC is cutting education
spending; their master’s degrees are worthless; tenure is abolished, and they
haven’t had a raise in the past seven years.
All of the above is false, except for the abolition
of tenure. The following Carolina
Journal article puts the state’s budget in perspective:
RALEIGH — Although authorized
spending on K-12 public education in the newly enacted state budget will
increase by nearly 5 percent over the previous school year, opponents of
education reform have orchestrated rallies, flooded the media, and vilified the
Republican-dominated General Assembly for its sweeping agenda.
Lawmakers adopted a 2013-14 budget conference report authorizing $7.9 billion in General Fund spending on K-12 education, which is up 4.8 percent over the $7.5 billion budget enacted for the 2012-13 fiscal year.
"Since 2010, Republican legislators have made it clear that their policy agenda included a handful of core education reforms eventually incorporated into the budget,” said Terry Stoops, director of research and education studies at the John Locke Foundation.
“These include the expansion of parental choice, elimination of teacher tenure and certain pay supplements, implementation of a school grading system, and development of a performance pay system for school personnel,” Stoops said. “Simply put, this budget is the culmination of an education reform agenda that had been laid out for the last three years."
Acknowledging there are naysayers who claim that the reforms are an attempt to destroy public education, Stoops said: “The truth is that these reforms discard or dismantle policies approved decades ago at the behest of a handful of special interest groups. Legislators both modernized and diversified public education in North Carolina."
Now comes the hard part, he said.
“Status-quo teachers and administrators, along with the advocacy groups that support them, will do everything in their power to undermine these new policies during their implementation. As such, Republican legislators must remain vigilant,” Stoops said. “Otherwise, these worthwhile reforms will flounder through no fault of their own."
Overall General Fund allocations to education increase the share of spending on education from 55 percent of the General Fund budget last year to 56 percent this year
Lawmakers adopted a 2013-14 budget conference report authorizing $7.9 billion in General Fund spending on K-12 education, which is up 4.8 percent over the $7.5 billion budget enacted for the 2012-13 fiscal year.
"Since 2010, Republican legislators have made it clear that their policy agenda included a handful of core education reforms eventually incorporated into the budget,” said Terry Stoops, director of research and education studies at the John Locke Foundation.
“These include the expansion of parental choice, elimination of teacher tenure and certain pay supplements, implementation of a school grading system, and development of a performance pay system for school personnel,” Stoops said. “Simply put, this budget is the culmination of an education reform agenda that had been laid out for the last three years."
Acknowledging there are naysayers who claim that the reforms are an attempt to destroy public education, Stoops said: “The truth is that these reforms discard or dismantle policies approved decades ago at the behest of a handful of special interest groups. Legislators both modernized and diversified public education in North Carolina."
Now comes the hard part, he said.
“Status-quo teachers and administrators, along with the advocacy groups that support them, will do everything in their power to undermine these new policies during their implementation. As such, Republican legislators must remain vigilant,” Stoops said. “Otherwise, these worthwhile reforms will flounder through no fault of their own."
Overall General Fund allocations to education increase the share of spending on education from 55 percent of the General Fund budget last year to 56 percent this year
I can commiserate with these teachers. I wish I had the ability to tell my boss, he
can’t fire me, because I have tenure.
Oh, and I would like to have a minimum 5% annual raise. And by the way, I’m going to retire at age 50
and you’re going to pay me an annual stipend, along with all my health care
bills, until the day I die.
Geez, I wish I had that kind of leverage.
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