Senator Bill Cook (R-District 1) attended a press conference on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, that announced a proposal to allocate an average of 11.2 percent permanent pay raise for North Carolina public school teachers.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 9:14 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Republicans slashed the education budget, offered teachers no pay raise and passed vouchers to allow kids to take public school dollars to private schools! We're witnessing the dismantling of public education!
Published: Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 @ 3:34 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Just about everyone agrees on the value and importance of education. North Carolina allocates roughly fifty cents of ever dollar in our state budget to education, and while we appreciate our dedicated teachers and acknowledge the good things happening.
Published: Saturday, October 6th, 2012 @ 2:16 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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In 2012, the N.C. Department of Public Instruction will introduce new curricula and standards for all public school students. This will include the new North Carolina Essential Standards for social studies, science, arts education, and world languages, among others.
Published: Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 @ 5:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Along with most other states, North Carolina is in the process of adopting new Common Core national standards for reading and mathematics. The good news is that the Common Core is much better than North Carolina's previously reading and math standards.
Published: Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 @ 2:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Public schooling is the state's single largest, and arguably most important, expenditure. More than one-third of North Carolina's new $20.2 billion General Fund budget is set aside for K-12 education.
Published: Saturday, August 4th, 2012 @ 11:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week the North Carolina General Assembly successfully overrode Gov. Perdue's veto of SB 727- No Dues Checkoff for School Employees.
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 @ 7:48 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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