Here’s your regular reminder that southern states run by Republican legislatures *can* pass meaningful raises for educators which value experience and long term commitment to teaching. COME ON NORTH CAROLINA!!! #nced #ncpol #pepsc #ExperienceMatters4NC

Here’s your regular reminder that it *is* possible to significantly raise teacher pay without creating a subjective merit pay scheme to go along with it. That’s what a good faith commitment to educators looks like. #nced #ncpol #pepsc pbs.org/newshour/educa…

It's important to note that part of teacher recruitment is teacher retention. You can't recruit people to teach if there is no continuity of people who are already in the teaching profession. Teaching is not a "solo" profession. #nced

Sorry, but you don't get a C when you've supported our Lt. Gov's witch hunt for "indoctrinating" teachers, blocked EducationNC from independently surveying teachers on merit pay, and disparaged students who receive free lunches at school #nced #ncpol x.com/CTruittNC/stat…

North Carolina may require students to take computer science. But earth science could get axed. General Assembly is considering legislation that could replace earth science with computer science as a high school graduation requirement. #nced #ncpol #ncga newsobserver.com/news/local/edu…

Hats off to Union County Superintendent Andrew Houlihan for speaking plainly about the harm the merit pay plan will do in our state. #PathwaysToExodus #nced #NoThanks

NC House passed 111-2 today 4 school calendar flexibility bills (HB45, HB106, HB115, HB129) impacting 22 districts, including Wake County & CMS. Coastal Reps. Celeste Cairns & Frank Iler voted no. Sen. Phil Berger says they won't be acted on in Senate. #nced #ncpol #ncga #wcpss

The Disney movie “Ruby Bridges” has been removed from use at a Florida school until a review committee can assess it after a parent complained that the movie “might teach white children to hate Black children” tampabay.com/news/education…

Kris Nordstrom Michigan has a dem majority in all branches now. We need to vote like them to achieve this! Or the GOP has to correct itself and get back on the education train.

Here’s a partial list of the damage the Republican “Education Party” has done to education in North Carolina since taking over in 2010. It’s 100% laughably absurd they’re even testing this talking point. #nced #ncpol

Here are just two examples of bills submitted by Republican legislators in the #NCGA just this year that are essentially ghostwritten by far-right lobbyists at ALEC. @JasonSaine97th, ALEC's NC point man (and sometimes an NC legislator), really works for the money. #ncpol

This is the result of the North Carolina Republican Party’s decade-long campaign to dismantle public schools. Here’s a partial list of policies they’ve enacted to shatter our teacher pipeline. #nced #ncpol #ncga

Just for a reality check, here are the proposals for teacher pay in each of Governor Josh Stein, NC House Republicans and NC Senate Republicans state budget plans. Sort of speaks for itself, doesn't it? #ncpol

Some people are fueled by extreme & incorrect views of our public schools. There is another way. I want to spotlight the strengths of our public schools. And I’ll work to improve them where needed so that every child growing up in NC gets an excellent education.

Student behavior is certainly part of the equation, but the main reasons we can’t attract and retain teachers has more to do with N.C. Republicans’ 13-year crusade to wreck public schools via policy choices. #nced #ncpol

Paid charter school spokesman: "We just care about performance!" That performance:

There were a number of you who learned about the complete removal of school librarians from Franklin County Schools last week. Join fellow librarians in signing a petition against these cuts to keep school librarians for the students of Franklin County Schools! #nced

This ultra-conservative Republican activist runs for her local Texas school board to root out the "pornography" and racial division she'd been told suffused the school curriculum. Just one problem: she couldn't find any. Now her fellow activists shun her. texastribune.org/2024/05/15/tex…

North Carolina will do you one better - 1 in 6 private school voucher applicant households in NC makes more than a quarter of a million dollars a year. Private school vouchers were aggressively marketed once as helping low-income kids. That's just plainly not the case.