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Ongoing NC GOP debacle thread

WFFaithful said:
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Veteran teachers haven't received a decent pay raise in over a decade (in some years they've gotten practically nothing) and yet even with a record surplus the legislature refuses to meet Cooper's 8.5% pay raise request (or anything remotely close) but instead they continue to transfer public school money to private school vouchers for mostly well-to-do families. And so the NC GOP's war on public ed continues.
 
BTW, most of the better private schools around here won't accept the vouchers.
 
WFFaithful said:
Gotta keep out the riffraff
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To be fair to the private schools, the voucher system in FL had so many delays last fall that some private schools didn’t receive payments until November and were running out of money. So this year, many school are refusing the vouchers or, are making parents pay up front and they reimbursing them after the vouchers are received from the state.
 
The GOP in the NC House just passed an "Academic Transparency Bill" that will require all public school teachers to post all of their lesson plans in detail, along with their name, on a special website for parents to see, within ten days of the lesson being given. So no significant pay raise for teachers - especially veteran teachers - but they will divert another $500 million to vouchers and force teachers to do this. And (of course) this law won't apply to NC charter schools. They tried to do this in 2021 and it failed, but this time it may well pass, given that Cooper's vetoes can be overridden.

This is what the bill would require:
▪The names of all instructional and supplemental materials, used with an electronic link to the instructional materials website.
▪ Any other materials used in a course, organized by title, and the author, organization or website associated with each material and activity. This would include materials created by the teacher.
▪ A brief descriptor of the course materials and a link to the materials, if publicly available on the internet, or information on how to request or a copy of the materials.

The bill goes beyond what teachers are saying in their classes.

It would require schools to post online information on each grade- or school-wide presentation, assembly, lecture or other activity or event that happens during school hours outside of a teacher’s classroom. This information would include a list of each presenter by name and organization and any course material used or presented.

Lawmakers also want the public to know how teachers are trained. The bill would require schools to post online a list of teacher and staff training materials used at each school during the current school year.

Link: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/gop-lawmakers-want-nc-public-183237833.html
 
Highland Deac said:
The GOP in the NC House just passed an "Academic Transparency Bill" that will require all public school teachers to post all of their lesson plans in detail, along with their name, on a special website for parents to see, within ten days of the lesson being given. So no significant pay raise for teachers - especially veteran teachers - but they will divert another $500 million to vouchers and force teachers to do this. And (of course) this law won't apply to NC charter schools. They tried to do this in 2021 and it failed, but this time it may well pass, given that Cooper's vetoes can be overridden.

This is what the bill would require:
▪The names of all instructional and supplemental materials, used with an electronic link to the instructional materials website.
▪ Any other materials used in a course, organized by title, and the author, organization or website associated with each material and activity. This would include materials created by the teacher.
▪ A brief descriptor of the course materials and a link to the materials, if publicly available on the internet, or information on how to request or a copy of the materials.

The bill goes beyond what teachers are saying in their classes.

It would require schools to post online information on each grade- or school-wide presentation, assembly, lecture or other activity or event that happens during school hours outside of a teacher’s classroom. This information would include a list of each presenter by name and organization and any course material used or presented.

Lawmakers also want the public to know how teachers are trained. The bill would require schools to post online a list of teacher and staff training materials used at each school during the current school year.

Link: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/gop-lawmakers-want-nc-public-183237833.html
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More "gotcha" shit. So glad I'm no longer in the system. I hope the NCAE is all over this.
 
Highland Deac said:
The GOP in the NC House just passed an "Academic Transparency Bill" that will require all public school teachers to post all of their lesson plans in detail, along with their name, on a special website for parents to see, within ten days of the lesson being given. So no significant pay raise for teachers - especially veteran teachers - but they will divert another $500 million to vouchers and force teachers to do this. And (of course) this law won't apply to NC charter schools. They tried to do this in 2021 and it failed, but this time it may well pass, given that Cooper's vetoes can be overridden.

This is what the bill would require:
▪The names of all instructional and supplemental materials, used with an electronic link to the instructional materials website.
▪ Any other materials used in a course, organized by title, and the author, organization or website associated with each material and activity. This would include materials created by the teacher.
▪ A brief descriptor of the course materials and a link to the materials, if publicly available on the internet, or information on how to request or a copy of the materials.

The bill goes beyond what teachers are saying in their classes.

It would require schools to post online information on each grade- or school-wide presentation, assembly, lecture or other activity or event that happens during school hours outside of a teacher’s classroom. This information would include a list of each presenter by name and organization and any course material used or presented.

Lawmakers also want the public to know how teachers are trained. The bill would require schools to post online a list of teacher and staff training materials used at each school during the current school year.

Link: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/gop-lawmakers-want-nc-public-183237833.html
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Consistent with the goal of tearing down public education.
 
“I don’t like it when I’m trying to look at a billboard and deciding where to turn,” Jarvis said.

“Billboards distract drivers,” Molly Diggins, former director of the North Carolina Sierra Club, said. “That’s the safety issue.”

Pretty much. NC does seem to have more billboards than other states. Never really thought about that.
 
PhDeac said:
“I don’t like it when I’m trying to look at a billboard and deciding where to turn,” Jarvis said.

“Billboards distract drivers,” Molly Diggins, former director of the North Carolina Sierra Club, said. “That’s the safety issue.”

Pretty much. NC does seem to have more billboards than other states. Never really thought about that.
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Thanks South of the Border!
 
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