RALEIGH — The North Carolina House education budget is scratch made, taking few cues from the Senate’s plan, Rep. Craig Horn, R-Union, told Carolina Journal on Thursday. House leaders took a hard look at the $22.9 billion General Fund budget for 2017-2018, putting $8.7 billion in education spending where it made sense, he said. Many...
RALEIGH — Some education items in the Senate budget will remain, House leaders say. But some will go. Rep. Craig Horn, R-Union, chairman of the House Committee on K-12 Education, told Carolina Journal the changes are imminent. Teacher pay gets top billing. The Senate budget provides an average 3.7 percent pay raise for teachers the first...
RALEIGH — North Carolina needs a better system to rate school performance, lawmakers said Tuesday. Traditional public and charter schools are scored on a scale from A through F. The system looks at student achievement for 80 percent of a school’s grade. Student growth scores, which measure a child’s academic improvement year over year, account...
RALEIGH — A host of luminaries led by UNC system President Margaret Spellings used a Thursday press conference to announce a newly branded North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program. The proposal, which is set to be introduced next week in the General Assembly, would offer loans of as much as $8,250 to students who plan to teach...
Even though Gov. Roy Cooper’s request to expand North Carolina’s Medicaid program unilaterally has been halted in federal court, some GOP lawmakers say they are open to considering a limited enrollment increase. “I sense no appetite in the legislature to expand Medicaid per se,” said state Rep. Craig Horn, R-Union, chairman of the Joint Legislative...
