K-3 Class Size Restrictions Delayed One Year
On February 8, Republican legislative leaders introduced HB90, allowing a phase in plan for smaller class sizes in grades K-3 until 2021-22 instead of the …
Class Size Chaos
#ClassSizeChaos Advocacy Day
The NCGA returns for another special session on January 10th, so let’s welcome them back in person!
Join us Wednesday, January 10, 2018 from 9AM to 1PM for an old fashioned Advocacy Day. …
Resilience: A Documentary Event
Public Schools First NC is bringing you this film because we believe that our public schools have a critical role to play in building resilience to face Adverse Childhood Experiences …
#ClassSizeChaos Tweet Storm A-Comin
SAVE THE DATE to help us welcome NCGA members with what’s on all of our minds when they return in January 2018! Join us Tuesday, January 9th from 4:00-6:00 PM for an old fashioned Twitter …
#CharlottesvilleCurriculum
As North Carolina families prepare for a new school year, our school communities are thinking about the many questions students will surely have about the August 12 white supremacist rampage …
2017-19 Biennium Budget
NC General Assembly conference committee members released their final plan for the biennium shortly before midnight on Monday, June 19. Senate leaders held votes on the 983-page plan, consisting of …
2017-19 Budget Conference Committee
Now that the House and the Senate have passed their budgets, the differences between the two will be reconciled by a conference committee, with members from both chambers.
House Education Biennium Budget
The House released a partial Education budget for 2017-2019 on Thursday, May 25th at an 8:30 AM committee meeting. Leadership allowed members to add amendments at the meeting though they had …
Senate’s 2017-19 Budget Passed
The NC Senate released a budget plan for the next two years on May 10, 2017, a day after releasing some details without the full plan. The full chamber passed the …
‘Democracy for Sale’ Film...
Democracy for Sale travels with Zach Galifianakis, the comic star of the Hangover movies, back to his home state to investigate how North Carolina has become a bellwether for how …
