By David Rice Executive Director, Public Ed Works WINCHESTER, VA (January 8, 2025) – I’m the son of two teachers – one a highly successful football coach and excellent math teacher, the other a strict home-ec teacher. Rather than The Brady Bunch, I grew up watching game film on our living room wall – forward… READ MORE
Hopes for 2025
RALEIGH (January 2, 2025) – North Carolina’s General Assembly seems to consider itself all-powerful. Well here’s hoping that changes with the new year. Republicans lost their supermajority in the state House by a single seat in November’s elections, giving Gov. Josh Stein slightly more bargaining power with the legislature than his predecessor Roy Cooper had…. READ MORE
Vouchers’ impact on public school funding
RALEIGH (January 2, 2024) – Over the next several weeks, we will publish several short posts to address misinformation circulating about the North Carolina School vouchers called “Opportunity Scholarships.” These vouchers use public, taxpayer funds to pay for private school tuition. First up is the claim that Opportunity Scholarships do not divert funding from public… READ MORE
2024: An onslaught on public education
RALEIGH (December 26, 2024) – 2024 marked a continuing – and at times audacious – eating away at public schools in North Carolina. Governing boards appointed directly or indirectly by state legislators drove away a chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill, asserted control over athletic conference switches, and did away with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs at… READ MORE
Mo Green: ‘Lift back up public education’
RALEIGH (December 19, 2024) – North Carolina just learned that, for the second year in a row, it ranks 48th in the nation for per-pupil funding and 49th for how much of its economy it devotes to public schools. “North Carolina is basically a situation of missed opportunity,” the research director at the Education Law… READ MORE
Green on teacher pay: Voices of the many
RALEIGH (December 19, 2024) – As he mounts an effort to raise teacher pay in North Carolina, incoming State Superintendent Maurice “Mo” Green knows it will take a team. In any of the things he will do as state superintendent, he says in the accompanying video, “I’m not going to be doing them by myself…. READ MORE
Green: Business community must be involved
RALEIGH (December 19, 2024) – North Carolina’s business community has a vested interest in its public schools. And it needs to act on it, the state’s incoming Superintendent of Public Instruction says. “My idea of ‘public schools’ is to focus on both of those words,” State Superintendent-Elect Maurice “Mo” Green says in the accompanying video…. READ MORE
Roberts: I report to one person
CHAPEL HILL (December 12, 2024) – It seems there’s tension on every college campus these days, from governing boards to student protests. In North Carolina, governance can seem complex: There’s a Board of Governors for the UNC System, which is appointed by state legislators. There’s a System President. There’s a Board of Trustees at each… READ MORE
‘Upheaval and uncertainty’ in college athletics
CHAPEL HILL (December 12, 2024) – It’s an understatement to say these are uncertain times in college sports. Conferences stretch from coast to coast. A transfer portal makes every athlete a free agent. NIL payments to athletes – does it stand for “name, image and likeness” or “Now It’s Legal”? “No one’s seen a situation… READ MORE
FULTON: Do we see the connection between business and public schools?
By Paul Fulton Chair, Public Ed Works RALEIGH (December 5, 2024) – Once upon a time, North Carolina was a leader in public education. The president of the state Chamber of Commerce was also the chair of the State Board of Education. Average teacher pay in North Carolina ranked 19th in the nation in 2001.1… READ MORE
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