Remember that thousands of teachers from across North Carolina took a personal day to assemble at the State Capitol on May 16 to protest the underfunding of public education?
Maybe you forgot, but you are not alone if you did. The North Carolina General Assembly passed a budget without hearings that is a dagger in the heart of public schools.
It contains plenty of goodies for charter schools and cybercharters.
But it expresses contempt for public schools and their teachers. The extremists now in charge of the General Assembly won’t be content until they have privatized every school in the state.
NBCT teacher Stuart Egan explains the budget here.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Posted Egan’s report at Oped.https://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/North-Carolina-General-As-in-General_News-Public-Schools-180530-980.html
with this comment:
Shared knowledge is the core of a democracy, saysE.D. Hirsch http://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/hirsch.pdf
North Carolina Plans to Adopt Koch-Funded Social Studies Curriculum
What knowledge of our history do you imagine the Koch Brothers will share with the students?
This is how it is done.
While the media plays the Trump Apprenticeship the war on public education –the ONLY road to income equality — is being fought across the nation, and our future citizens are the losers. Here is the link to the Ravitch blog on privatization and charter school fraud
https://dianeravitch.net/?s=privatization
https://dianeravitch.net/?s=charter+schools+fraud
…and take a look at this report, written by Kris Nordstrom, who works for the North Carolina Justice Center. He previously was a research analyst for the North Carolina General Assembly. The report tells the story of a state that was once the envy of the South for its education policies, but is now in rapid decline, copying failed policies from other states. http://www.ncjustice.org/?q=education/education-policy-perspectives-unraveling%E2%80%94poorly-crafted-education-policies-are-failing
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THE recipe for breaking up strong public education systems — an invasive “school fixing” recipe which those who care about public education recognize as being useful ONLY should the actual goal be chaos and ultimate destruction — keeps moving state to state.
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Those salaries are leaps and bounds better than the salaries of teachers in Miami where the cost of living dwarfs that of North Carolina. Yet the FEA is advocating that Florida teachers stray from any protests since they’ve been the recipient of raises in the past years. There are teachers in Miami Dade who have been teaching over twenty years making less than $50,000 while the District sits on a $222 million dollar surplus. Miami has the worst mid career teacher salaries of any major metropolitan city in the entire Country. That salary scale looks a whole lot better than the one I have linked below and mind you there aren’t even any more steps in Miami due to Obamas RTTT and our lack of a competent Union. Our so called Union bargained away the step schedule for everyone including grandfathered teachers. Now what we have is a min max schedule with absolutely zero movement and minimal increases of 1 to 2 percent per year if we’re lucky which pretty much assures that the majority of teachers will never reach anywhere near the max pay. Our Superintendent has balanced the budget year after year on the backs of his teachers. New York you dodged a major bullet.
http://salary.dadeschools.net/Schd_Teachers/
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Reblogged this on David R. Taylor-Thoughts on Education and commented:
Ugh!!
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Double UGH! So SAD.
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North Carolina has become the example of what happens if the country continues to polarize and the political forces that benefit from polorization seize power and govern as though they had no rival philosophy. The lack of restraint on the part of conservatives in North Carolina is instructional for us. This is what it looks like when people refuse to compromise, when they see enemies all around themselves, lurking.
The problem is, those of us who believe in democracy cannot use the same tactics to win back representative government. We must fight the fire of totalitarianism with water, not fire.
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