RALEIGH (April 25, 2024) – The NC General Assembly is back this week for its so-called “short” session to make adjustments for the second year of the state budget. And boy, are there plenty of “adjustments” to make… The legislature’s analysts project a $1.4 billion revenue surplus for the 2024-25 budget year. But with federal… READ MORE
Board of Governors: Please hit pause
By Dr. Barbara K. Rimer Professor Emerita and Dean Emerita University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CHAPEL HILL (April 25, 2024) – I am not a Tar Heel born and bred, as the fight song goes, but I am a Tar Heel through and through. I love UNC-Chapel Hill and the state. For 17… READ MORE
Questions on DEI: What’s changed?
RALEIGH (April 25, 2024) – As we approach a vote by the UNC Board of Governors next month to repeal a 2019 policy that requires UNC campuses to hire diversity officers and work toward diversity,1 a few observations and a few questions: 10 members of the Board of Governors voted in September 2019 to adopt the… READ MORE
Ramsey on UNCSA: “Both industry and artistry”
EDITOR’S NOTE: UNC Board of Governors Chair Randy Ramsey shared the following remarks about the UNC School of the Arts at the Board’s meeting there last week. WINSTON-SALEM (April 18, 2024) – Chancellor (Brian) Cole, it’s been a privilege to visit the UNC School of the Arts. We’re beyond impressed by the students, faculty, and… READ MORE
NC voters: Pay teachers better
RALEIGH (April 18, 2024) – Nearly 8 in 10 North Carolina voters support better pay raises for the state’s public school teachers next year. In a statewide poll conducted for Public Ed Works before the NC General Assembly convenes next week, 78% of NC voters said K-12 public school teachers deserve a bigger raise than… READ MORE
UNC System makes modest legislative requests
WINSTON-SALEM (April 18, 2024) – The UNC System will seek an additional $70 million in operating funds – or 1.9% – from the General Assembly this spring, largely to reward UNC campuses for increases in enrollment and efficiency. The plan reviewed by the UNC Governors this week relies on the System’s new performance-weighted funding model,… READ MORE
A well-earned smackdown
RALEIGH (April 10, 2024) – Call it a well-earned smackdown. On the day Lee Roberts took office as Interim Chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill in January, UNC System leaders sent the Chair of the university’s Board of Trustees a memo reminding him of the limits on the board’s authority and reassigning certain personnel powers to Roberts…. READ MORE
Teachers Talk: ‘Unsustainable to do what I’m built to do’
RALEIGH (April 10, 2024) – Sara Scanlon feels “steadily increasing pressure” to increase graduation rates among her students – whether they’ve mastered the material or not. In our latest installment of Teachers Talk, Scanlon – a high-school math teacher in Wake County in her 12th year of teaching – talks about the frustrations that creates… READ MORE
Teachers Talk: ‘We deserve a livable wage’
CONCORD (April 4, 2024) – To Natalia Mejia, teachers should be treated like the professionals they are. In the latest installment of our Teachers Talk series, the ESL teacher at C.C. Griffin STEM Magnet Middle School and NCCAT Empower NC Beginning Teacher of the Year notes how North Carolina ranked 34th in average teacher pay… READ MORE
Brad Wilson: A workforce pipeline
RALEIGH (April 4, 2024) – If you don’t see a connection between investment in public education and North Carolina’s economy, take it from someone who has. “Public education is critically important for workforce development,” Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC CEO Emeritus Brad Wilson says in the accompanying video. Wilson shares how he worked with… READ MORE
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