Education workers will leap to the head of the line for COVID-19 vaccines on Feb. 24. More than a million seniors are still waiting for their first dose. Seniors will share their priority status with teachers, child-care workers, and anyone working in Pre-K–12 schools, beginning Feb. 24. The state has vaccinated only 40.7% of its...
Before the coronavirus pandemic shuttered schools, more teachers were staying in North Carolina’s classrooms. North Carolina succeeded in lowering its teacher-attrition rate, even after its budget stalemate froze teacher pay. The state lost only 7.53% of its 94,410 teachers in the past reporting year. No one knows how the coronavirus pandemic and remote learning will...
As many predicted, the California-based consulting firm WestEd is recommending North Carolina spend billions of taxpayer dollars on pre-schools and district schools to meet the requirements of the Leandro case. Leandro v. State of North Carolina is a 1994 lawsuit that centers on the state’s constitutional duty to provide an “opportunity for a sound basic education”...
North Carolina public school teachers and higher education employees hoping to get a pay raise will have to wait. Perhaps until January. Gov. Roy Cooper, at a Friday, Nov. 7, Executive Mansion news conference, announced a veto of four mini-budgets, including measures giving preK-12 teachers a 3.9% raise, boosting salaries to community college and university...
Lawmakers cannot expect to find a single "magic bullet" for boosting student performance in North Carolina's most challenging districts.
In North Carolina, at-risk 4-year-olds unable to attend a brick-and-mortar pre-K may soon get a chance to attend virtual preschool. Some lawmakers are looking to enact the pilot program for low-income families whose children are missing out on a pre-K education. At the behest of the state, Waterford.org, a Utah-based early learning nonprofit, would administer...
State Superintendent Mark Johnson has put a price tag on his plan to make North Carolina the best place for public school educators to begin, learn, and teach by 2030. Johnson announced #NC2030, his education initiative to improve learning and teaching environments in the state, at a Feb. 19 dinner for legislators, educators, school and...
State Superintendent Mark Johnson has a brand new plan to make North Carolina the best state in which to learn and to teach by 2030. He unveiled the #NC2030 plan Tuesday, Feb. 19, at the Innovation and Leadership program, an invitation-only event for school and district leaders, educators, lawmakers, and business and community leaders. “By...
After thousands of low-income students were randomly assigned to the pre-K program or to a control group, program participants showed some academic gains at first — but by the third grade the benefits disappeared.
Defying conventional wisdom, a statewide study on Tennessee’s voluntary state preschool program shows children who participated in the program didn’t perform any better than children who didn’t attend pre-K. The study is the first large randomized control test of a state funded pre-K program. Vanderbilt Institute Research Professors Mark Lipsey, Dale Farran, and Kelley Durkin...
Lee Lilley did little to assuage Republicans’ concerns over a $57.8 million “voluntary” payment to Gov. Roy Cooper’s office from companies building the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Lawmakers doggedly questioned Lilley, who Cooper hired as his director of legislative affairs less than a week ago, during the meeting a joint appropriations committee of the General Assembly...
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