Dear Educators, Across North Carolina, talented and dedicated teachers have welcomed students back to public school classrooms. Many of you probably read the news stories about the first days of school and all of the opportunities and challenges such an occasion brings for students and parents. Among this coverage, there also were powerful stories […]
Raleigh Report Legislative Information from the North Carolina Council of Churches 27 Horne Street ● Raleigh, NC 27607 ● 919-828-6501 ● www.ncchurches.org August 28, 2013 Analysis from Steve Ford Back to school amid tight times Of the many public policies North Carolina has followed across the decades, none has brought greater dividends than the state’s commitment to invest in education at all levels. No other policy has […]
A new report entitled, “The State of the School-to-Prison-Pipeline in the Wake County Public School System,” was released on August 19, 2013 by Advocates for Children’s Services (ACS), a project of Legal Aid of North Carolina. Relying on the latest available data (2011-12), the report details the high number of suspensions in North Carolina’s largest […]
“Governor Pat McCrory spoke to the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce this morning and repeated misinformation circulated earlier in the week by the John Locke Foundation and Civitas Institute, two political special interest groups founded by the governor’s budget director Art Pope. In his remarks, the first term governor claimed North Carolina’s public schools received […]
