Terry Stoops

The Fiscal Research Division at the N.C. General Assembly tracks the history of state employee and teacher salary increases.  Here is a snippet of the teacher salary increases over the last five years:           It does not include increases for benefits, such as teacher…

Yes, I was invited to N.C. Superintendent of Public Instruction Mark Johnson’s February 19 dinner at the Raleigh Convention Center.  No, I did not attend.  (I spoke at the Cumberland County Men’s Republican Club meeting that evening.  Great folks in Fayetteville!) WRAL has a database of invitations, RSVPs, and…

The February 2019 publication, “A Newsletter for Beginning Teachers in NC” includes an article by 2018 Southwest Regional Teacher of the Year Samone Graham. Our public schools would be so much better if we simply asked teachers to focus on curriculum and instruction, rather than this kind of ideological nonsense.

Douglas Price, the 2019 North Carolina Burroughs Wellcome Fund Charter School Teacher of the Year, falls victim to groupthink in his latest EdNC article, Replacing the cap on charter schools forces charter schools to return to their original mission. Proponents of charters, like Terry Stoops of the…

Never gets old……

Some education advocacy organizations claim that North Carolina does not fund its school equitably, that is, the state fails to provide additional funding to its highest need public school students.  But those analyses are based on local funding differentials that fail to take into account state funding, which is, by…

Last night, Superintendent of Public Instruction Mark Johnson spoke at a huge, invitation-only event at the Raleigh Convention Center. You may have heard of it after WRAL gave a few disgruntled teachers a platform to criticize Johnson for revoking their invitations to the BB&T sponsored dinner.  (I was invited…

In a Facebook post, Constance Lav Johnson, candidate for N.C. Superintendent of Public Instruction, claims that “Walmart pays more and offers better benefits for cashiers.”                                       One person responded,…