Terry Stoops

Today, I received this email:                           Here is the current teacher pay ranking according to the News & Observer:    …

I am not familiar with the publication, The New Old North, but Kenneth Fine’s story of Goldsboro High School principal requiring that white teachers write a “cultural autobiography” is startling. Goldsboro High School principal Christopher D. Horne gave more than a dozen teachers — several of them…

According to the New York Times, Federal prosecutors charged dozens of people on Tuesday in a major college admission scandal that involved wealthy parents, including Hollywood celebrities and prominent business leaders, paying bribes to get their children into elite American universities. Thirty-three parents were charged in the case…

I haven’t read the latest National Education Association (NEA) “Rankings and Estimates” study, but the Herald Sun reports, North Carolina has jumped several spots to an estimate of 29th in the nation in average teacher pay, according to a new report released Tuesday by the National Education Association. The new NEA salary…

In today’s News & Observer article, “Report says average NC teacher salary is nearly $54,000. But NCAE says that figure is ‘skewed,’” the leader of the N.C. Association of Educators questions an average teacher salary calculation that has used the same methodology for 17 years. But NCAE president Mark Jewell…

Hot off the presses from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction:                   The average jumped from $51,234 in 2017-18 to $53,975 in 2018-19.  That is a $2,741 or a 5.3 percent increase.

In the proposed budget released this morning, Gov. Cooper wages war on low-income parents and children by cutting off their access to $4,200 private school scholarships: Opportunity Scholarship Program Reduces funding to reflect a gradual elimination of the program and associated changes to the statutory appropriations to the reserve…