The Network for Public Education Action Fund endorses Wiley Nickel for State Senate in North Carolina, District 16.
Wiley is a strong supporter of teachers and public schools.
The Network for Public Education has endorsed attorney Wiley Nickel for the District 16 seat in the North Carolina Senate. Wiley told us that he would “fight every day to fully fund the public school system, to raise teacher salaries to above the national average.”
He said he would support legislation to reduce class sizes, and also to pay for it. He sees the “class size chaos” that was created by the North Carolina legislature when they mandated reduced class sizes without providing additional funding for additional teachers.
Wiley also doesn’t agree that teacher pay should be capped the way it’s done in North Carolina, where the most senior teachers can never get a raise based on their seniority.
Wiley has taken a strong stand on both charter schools and vouchers, telling NPE Action that he opposes both. He supports a moratorium on charter schools, and “empowering local school boards with the ability to create charters and keep them under their governance.”
When is comes to vouchers, he called for “phasing out school vouchers for private schools, and ensuring that existing private schools receiving public voucher funds meet the same accountability and performance standards as public schools.” He also opposes tax credits and 529 accounts for K-12 private schools.
Please spread the word about Wiley’s May 8, 2018 primary election and help get people out to the polls to vote for a strong supporter of North Carolina’s teachers and public schools.
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WE HAVE TO ELECT LEGISLATORRS WHO SUPPORT WHAT WE THE PEOPLE NEED!It will be at the local level that we do everything. TheNO CAROLINA SENATE did not FUND IT, WHEN THEY mandated smaller class sizes because CLASS SIZE MATTERS AND IT is the ONE thing that makes the real difference in learning! WILEY KNOWS THIS!
The INSTITUTION OF PUBLIC EDUCATION is under attack, not the ‘schools.’
The only road to income equality is the public schools.
Shared knowledge is the requirement for democracy http://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/hirsch.pdf
The EDUCATIONAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX https://greatschoolwars.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/eic-oct_11.pdf
is handing over the schools to the legislators, with not an educator on board, and making war on the GENUINE EDUCATOR who knows ‘WLLL’: WHAT LEARNING LOOKS LIKE!” see my series. https://www.opednews.com/author/series/author40790.html
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If you have seniority in North Carolina your salary has basically been stagnant for too many years to count. It is beyond insulting; been there done that. Even now in retirement the disparity continues. The goal is to lure new teachers to the state with a decent salary. To make matters worse in the near future new hires will not have a defined pension or health plan available at retirement. I guess robots and computers will attend to teaching and classrooms.
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Wiley Nickel doesn’t even send his kids to public school!
Support Luis Toledo, who actually sends his kids to public schools, is equally strong on issues of school choice, but who also has years of relevant policy experience that will undoubtedly make him a much more effective legislator.
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