Terry Stoops

Last week, Gov. Roy Cooper pulled $50 million from reserve accounts and funds set aside for summer reading camps (which will not occur this summer for obvious reasons).  Districts and charters have the flexibility to use the funds for activities related to school nutrition, school and community-based child care,…

From The Greenville (S.C.) News Nov. 23, 1918…

The News & Observer reports, North Carolina public schools will remain closed through May 15 in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus. The state’s 1.5 million students have been home since last week when Gov. Roy Cooper ordered…

It’s official. The Trump administration granted a one-year waiver to states that will open the door to the elimination of statewide testing for the 2019-2020 school year.  North Carolina lawmakers and state education officials should follow suit.  If they do, numerous test-based program requirements would require waivers from the…

An English professor from UNC Greensboro is asking public school teachers to sign on to a petition calling on Gov. Cooper to suspend rent, mortgage, and utility payments.  The petition is part of Rent Strike 2020, an “organizing campaign working in partnership with Socialist Alternative, the Rose Caucus, and branches of…

Wake County teachers are irate that Superintendent Cathy Moore is allowing supervisors, including those who work in the central office, to work from home while teachers, school-based administrators, and staff are exposed to children and adults who may carry coronavirus. A Wake County teacher sent a screenshot of the superintendent’s…

A few questions from the recent High Point University Education Poll are questionable.  For example, it is not surprising that 64% of respondents favored “a statewide bond referendum to provide North Carolina school districts with funds to address an estimated 8 to 10-billion-dollar backlog in school construction and renovation.” …