19 percent of early childhood educators do not have health insurance
Published: Thursday, May 30th, 2019 @ 2:09 am
By: Governor's Office
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In a round table discussion with Governor Roy Cooper and Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen, early childhood professionals from across North Carolina shared stories of how the health care coverage gap is negatively affecting their colleagues.
Published: Thursday, May 23rd, 2019 @ 9:31 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Roy Cooper addressed educators at the North Carolina Association of Educators Rally for Respect on Halifax Mall in downtown Raleigh.
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2019 @ 7:45 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The Wake County Republican Party today called on the North Carolina Association of Educators, the Wake County School Board, and the General Assembly to engage in constructive discussions about teacher pay and school resources
Published: Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 @ 11:22 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Lawmakers, Educators Meet in Greensboro to Address Dropout Crisis, Ways to Promote Students’ SuccessOn Friday, North Carolina legislators and public higher education officials gathered at UNC Greensboro to discuss “Unlikely,” a documentary film about America’s college dropout crisis.
Published: Monday, April 22nd, 2019 @ 4:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Senate Bill 399, “Rehire High-Need Teachers,” would let educators who are at least six months into retirement take jobs at schools that receive D or F grades under the state’s school performance rankings.
Published: Monday, April 15th, 2019 @ 1:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In any human enterprise as complex, varied, and challenging as education, we shouldn't expect a great deal of consensus, much less unanimity
Published: Thursday, March 7th, 2019 @ 9:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mike Antonucci at the Education Intelligence Agency has published his annual membership and finance numbers for National Education Association (NEA) and state affiliates
Published: Monday, May 7th, 2018 @ 12:24 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Our guest today is Diane Rufino, Educator, Lawyer and constitutional authority of regional renown, and BCN contributor.
Published: Friday, February 3rd, 2017 @ 10:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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As school begins this fall, East Carolina University will play a major role in training health educators in K-12 schools across the state.
Published: Monday, September 12th, 2016 @ 8:08 am
By: ECU News Services
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Earlier this week, the North Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments to decide the constitutionality of legislation to phase out North Carolina's teacher tenure system.
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016 @ 12:38 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Secretary Rick Brajer announced today that Dr. Warren Newton, a leading health educator in North Carolina, has agreed to serve the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services as a senior medical advisor to help shape Medicaid reform, while continuing his current role as director of...
Published: Wednesday, February 10th, 2016 @ 7:56 pm
By: Chris Downey
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If you watch the evening news broadcasts or read the local paper, you have been told that more educators than ever are leaving North Carolina to teach elsewhere because the N.C. General Assembly "slashed" public school funding. Most of these stories, however, omit key facts and research findings...
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 3:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Now that the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) has defied an audit mandated by state law, what happens next?
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 11:54 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that North Carolina is among nine states to win approval of its Excellent Educators for All plan by the U.S. Department of Education.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 9:40 am
By: McCrory Communications
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For years, the N.C. State Board of Education has focused on producing "globally engaged" public school students. Admittedly, I have only a vague idea what "globally engaged" or similar terms mean, but I hear a lot about it in education circles. Sophisticated-sounding terms with the word...
Published: Wednesday, June 17th, 2015 @ 3:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University hospitality leadership professor Dr. George Fenich received the Educator Honoree Award at the 2015 Professional Convention Management Association awards ceremony April 8 in Washington, D.C.
Published: Friday, April 24th, 2015 @ 12:10 am
By: ECU News Services
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In "Maintaining rigor and listening to teachers in the debate over academic standards," Keith Poston of the Public School Forum argues against changing the Common Core math and English standards, since he believes members of the state's Academic Standards Review Commission (ASRC) are working to...
Published: Sunday, March 15th, 2015 @ 2:51 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Kay Hagan's campaign and its trolls are all over social media trumpeting a report published in the Greensboro News & Record that says North Carolina "ranks as worst state for teachers."
Published: Friday, October 3rd, 2014 @ 1:42 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Critics of the Republican-led General Assembly allege that the teacher-pay raise included in this year’s state budget could have been implemented in a much simpler fashion: by giving across-the-board hikes to all public school teachers across North Carolina, rather than giving large raises to early-
Published: Monday, August 11th, 2014 @ 3:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As part of a campaign to inform employees and union workers of their rights, the Civitas Institute will be educating North Carolina teachers and other school employees about how they can give themselves an average $450 a year pay increase by leaving the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE)
Published: Saturday, August 9th, 2014 @ 1:26 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Pat McCrory issued the following statement after signing charter school legislation into law.
Published: Saturday, August 9th, 2014 @ 11:59 am
By: Christopher Maye
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Are teachers receiving a pay increase?
Published: Wednesday, August 6th, 2014 @ 8:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Veteran educator William R. Askew who grew up on a Beaufort County farm has been chosen to head the new Agribusiness Technology Program at Beaufort County Community College.
Published: Monday, July 28th, 2014 @ 2:06 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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Today, in front of a packed crowd of educators and education leaders from across North Carolina, Governor Pat McCrory formally launched the Governor's Teacher Network.
Published: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014 @ 2:06 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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As the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) holds its "School's Out" rally, the Civitas Institute puts the spotlight on the gulf between teacher's salaries and NCAE executives' salaries.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 9:06 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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In February, I published a column titled, "Data Do Not Reflect Claims of Teacher Dissatisfaction," which pointed out that state and national data disagree with those who claim that the teaching profession is increasingly constrained and unhappy.
Published: Tuesday, June 17th, 2014 @ 6:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I have NO PROBLEM with anything you say. I used to type up my mother's tests on that smelly alcohol duplicator stencil.
Published: Wednesday, May 7th, 2014 @ 6:41 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Liberal activist organizations are challenging two new laws. In North Carolina Association of Educators, et al, v. The State of North Carolina, the state's teachers union challenged recent changes to North Carolina's tenure (aka "career status") law.
Published: Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 @ 1:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Education leaders and some politicians for years have urged that pay for educators in North Carolina be at "the national average," a goal used for no other employment sector in the state as a metric to gauge the appropriateness of pay.
Published: Monday, January 6th, 2014 @ 11:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) and House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg) issued the following joint statement today in response to yet another frivolous lawsuit filed by the North Carolina affiliate of the national teachers’ union.
Published: Tuesday, December 17th, 2013 @ 1:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Educators, wildlife officers, law enforcement officials and office workers were among the state employees from all across the state to be honored Tuesday afternoon with the Governor's Award for Excellence at a ceremony at the North Carolina Museum of History. Ten of the award recipients were ...
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 12:03 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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