RALEIGH (October 13, 2022) – North Carolina has an ambitious goal to have 2 million people ages 25-44 with a college degree or credential by 2030. Then why do we continue to disinvest in our public universities? The state spent $2,900 less per student in the University of North Carolina System in 2020-21 than it… READ MORE
Community Colleges: What don’t we get?
RALEIGH (October 6, 2022) – North Carolina is rated the No. 1 state in the nation for business.1 Then why can’t we do a better job paying the people who train our workers? Community colleges are at the heart of training North Carolina’s workforce for several big incoming employers: Apple. Google. Boom Supersonic. VinFast. Wolfspeed… READ MORE
CHATHAM: With 9,000 new jobs, it’s a regional economy
SANFORD (October 6, 2022) – It’s a pleasant problem to have. But with electric-vehicle maker VinFast (7,400 jobs) and semiconductor maker Wolfspeed (1,800 jobs) set to open new plants there in 2024,1 Chatham County is looking at 9,000 new jobs to fill. Who will train all those workers? Most of the jobs will require community… READ MORE
K-12: Symptoms of lousy pay
RALEIGH (September 29, 2022) – Imagine you’re a ninth-grade math teacher with 36 students in your class. Beyond the histrionics and hormones that rage at that age, just how much attention can you give each of those kids? Yet with thousands of empty teacher jobs across the state, such class sizes happen even in 2022… READ MORE
Early Childhood: Do what it takes
RALEIGH (September 22, 2022) – Everyone has taken a hit during the COVID pandemic. But some sectors – especially pre-school for our youngest learners – have taken a bigger hit than others. Any way you paint it, it’s not a pretty picture. Child-care workers in North Carolina made a paltry $24,600 a year in 2020…. READ MORE
NC Pre-K: Pay the folks who teach our kids
RALEIGH (September 22, 2022) – NC Pre-K is an effective, nationally recognized program launched by former Gov. Mike Easley for at-risk 4-year-olds. Yet, as researchers from the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) at Rutgers University found before the pandemic in 2018, it reached only 47% of eligible children. And 53% – nearly 33,000… READ MORE
Hans: No UNC System tuition increase in 2023-24
CHAPEL HILL (September 22, 2022) – Despite inflationary pressures and chancellors’ desire for a tuition increase, the UNC System will hold tuition for in-state undergraduates steady for a seventh straight year in 2023-24, President Peter Hans said this week. “Tuition is the single most important signal we send,” Hans told a committee of the UNC… READ MORE
Where We Stand: Underfunded
RALEIGH (September 15, 2022) – North Carolina is on a roll winning new – and future-oriented – business. We’ve seen big job announcements over the past year from household names like Toyota, Apple and Google. We should be proud of that. Between the Triangle and the Triad, we see an emerging corridor that will focus… READ MORE
Leandro: Time to pony up
RALEIGH (September 8, 2022) – Lawyers butted heads before the NC Supreme Court last week over whether the court can order $785 million in spending to meet the state’s constitutional promise to North Carolina students.1 After 28 years of lawyers arguing, it’s long past time for the state to pony up. Beyond the dollars, the… READ MORE
What will it take?
RALEIGH (September 8, 2022) – High-stakes arguments are underway – as they have been for 28 years – in the Leandro case about funding for basic education in our state. What is it about the NC General Assembly that compels our legislators to ignore the educational needs of our most valuable assets: Our children? Our… READ MORE
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