Our Comments beside each opinion column offer the opportunity to engage in a dialogue about this article. End the disruptive tactics and start now to make the prudent decisions and investments in the education of students, the quality of those who lead their classrooms and the resources these students and teachers need so they have the quality learning opportunities they’ve been promised.Ĭapitol Broadcasting Company's Opinion Section seeks a broad range of comments and letters to the editor. They promote a facade of parental involvement while short-changing the schools their children attend. Regretfully, North Carolina’s legislative leaders choose to play politics with their partisan base. The court has ordered implementation of this consensus plan and it is time for our state’s leaders – including those in the General Assembly – to get behind it. The plaintiffs and defendants in the long-standing legal battle over making sure the state fulfills it obligation to public school students have come together and developed a long-range plan to bring a quality education to every corner of the state. Roy Cooper’s called for a bond issue including $2 billion for local school construction needs – at a time when interest rates were low and it was a wise way of financing - the legislature came up with merely a fifth of that for selected school districts.
The legislature has nickel-and-dimed school construction – again a situation where diverse districts across the state face crumbling, inadequate facilities. Enrollment in the UNC System schools of education has dropped by the hundreds over the last decade. It has since been revived, but at a much-diminished level. They’ve failed to provide an environment that encourages young people to become teachers by abolishing the state’s highly successful Teaching Fellows program. In the last decade legislators have made teaching a less attractive profession by failing to improve working conditions, reduce benefits and choke the pay scale by diminishing the rewards for those teachers with the most experience and training. Ensure fair and competitive compensation for educators.Address the root causes of mental health and school safety crises.Implement, monitor and evaluate the Comprehensive Remedial Plan.Grow, retain and diversify the teacher pipeline.Prepare students for the world they live in.Many of the concerns, now at the crisis state, have unfortunately been of the legislature’s own making. Just a day earlier the Public School Forum of North Carolina offered up a clear education agenda worthy of immediate attention in the General Assembly. It isn’t as if there wasn’t an opportunity to address the truly pressing matters facing North Carolina public schools. In a state where there aren’t enough teachers for every classroom, the first topic on the agenda was legislation to prevent teachers from talking about certain subjects. When the state Senate Education Committee held its first meeting last week, making sure North Carolina’s children has access to a quality education – a right guaranteed by the State Constitution – wasn’t mentioned. They’re obsessed with waging their so-called culture war. What kind of urgency do our state legislators bring to this crisis?
These dire circumstances plague school districts large and small, urban and rural. Shortages of nurses and counselors abound.
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