NCAE

Yesterday, the editors of the Charlotte Observer published an editorial complaining about the John Locke Foundation’s billboard campaign that encourages teachers to score a $500 raise by dropping their North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) membership.  The editors called the billboards a “cheap political stunt.” Amusingly, the NCAE…

From the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) website (click to enlarge):…

Think back to 2018 and 2019. Teachers’ unions are coming off successful strikes in West Virginia, Oklahoma and Kentucky and are wanting to nationalize their protests and walkouts to dramatize the plight of public education and strengthen the union movement.  The campaign, spearheaded by the nation’s two largest teachers’ unions;…

RALEIGH – Teachers deserve respect. For too long, their voices have been held hostage by the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE); their legitimate challenges drowned out by NCAE’s political theatrics and divisive and partisan agenda. To give classroom professionals a real voice, the John Locke Foundation has launched a…

RALEIGH – As teachers across North Carolina begin one of the most challenging school years of their careers, the John Locke Foundation today launched a statewide campaign to provide them with the tools to reject politics in the classroom and neutralize pressure to conform.  “Leave NCAE” is a combined billboard…

Opposition to classroom indoctrination is mounting. In North Carolina and across the nation, concerned parents and citizens are demanding accountability for the content and values being taught to their children in K-12 public schools. Chief concerns center around ideas about Neo-Marxism, wokeism, and the culmination of those ideas in the…

On Sunday, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Association of Educators (CMAE) held a press conference to urge lawmakers to address the teacher shortage by raising salaries. The problem is that there is no evidence of a teacher shortage. Vacancy rates are usually published in the State of the Teaching Profession report in…

Gross.