During the just-ended 2024 election campaign, candidates for offices such as governor, legislature, county commission, and state superintendent of public instruction talked a lot about raising the pay of public schoolteachers in our state — as well they should have. Even after adjusting for living costs, for example, the average first-year teacher makes nearly $1,000...
I have strong opinions about education policy in North Carolina and beyond. Maybe you’ve noticed! I’ve also been researching and writing about the subject for a very long time. During my first stint as a newspaper reporter in 1986, I covered raucous debates about a potential merger of school districts in Nash County, Edgecombe County,...
The good news is that North Carolina institutions aren’t just producing good ideas about how to improve school leadership. They’re on the ground implementing them.
A Union County teacher recently declared, “This might be rude, but I don’t care about parent child care issues. That should not be a valid reason for opening schools. #ihave3” Of the 367 comments to that Facebook post, a sizable majority agreed. “It’s time to hold parents accountable for raising the children they decided to...
North Carolina should make it easier for public school teachers to grow professionally, and for principals to spend money and direct personnel as they see fit, a pivotal new education report says. Unfortunately, media chatter about inadequate school funding is overshadowing these important recommendations, an expert says. On Tuesday, Dec. 10, a 300-page report from...
North Carolina has a new program to attract teachers. TeachNC officially launched during an Education Cabinet meeting attended by myriad state and education officials. The initiative aims to address critical teaching vacancies by boosting teacher recruitment and retention efforts through a statewide media campaign and a new website. It’s the result of a partnership among...
Few missions will be as important, and as challenging, as preparing the next generation of principals to lead North Carolina’s schools.
The North Carolina education finance system, often described as complicated and inequitable, could use an overhaul, several education finance experts said. On Tuesday, Jan. 29, the John Locke Foundation co-hosted an education finance workshop with the Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank, and Allovue, a K-12 budget and financing software company. The workshop focused on...
Living in Mebane is less expensive than living in Manhattan — so if you don’t properly account for these kinds of disparities, any nationwide comparison of school spending is utterly useless.
By some estimates, about a quarter of the entire effect of schooling on student learning is attributable to school leadership, directly or indirectly.
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