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Our public schools are facing a multitude of issues as we start 2022. Please help us understand your priorities so we can represent you by selecting the top 5 issues you think we should focus on in 2022! This will help us prepare for opportunities with the legislative short session. You may also suggest additional issues in the comment box.
- Provide full funding to implement all recommendations of the Leandro ruling/report.
- Restore exclusive use of public tax dollars for public schools and put a moratorium on vouchers to private schools.
- Implement consistent accountability requirements for all schools receiving public funds including both charter schools and private schools receiving public tax dollars via a voucher.
- Rebuild North Carolina’s teacher pipeline and recruit and retain more teachers of color through better pay, a robust teaching fellows program, better benefits, and better working conditions.
- Increase teacher pay for all teachers to at least the national average; especially offer veteran teachers an increase to recognize their skills and experience.
- Implement universal high-quality Pre-K programs.
- Increase funding to hire more helping professionals (school psychologists, social workers, counselors, and nurses) to meet nationally recommended ratios.
- Increase per pupil funding for special education students.
- Improve integration of our public schools.
- Provide safe learning environments for our students and teachers.
- Eliminate the A-F grading system or revise it to better reflect the complexity of schools and the challenges they face.
- Restore local school districts' school calendar flexibility to best meet the needs of their school communities.
- Reinstate supplemental pay for teachers who earn advanced degrees.
- Restore full-time teacher assistants in each classroom for grades K-3.
- Increase professional pay and benefits for all support staff, such as child nutrition, instructional assistants, and transportation employees.
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