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Dump the National Average Salary and Properly Value the Teaching Profession

The traditional school year is over once again without teachers knowing what their salaries will be next year. It’s not uncommon that the state budget bill, which sets spending priorities for the next two years, isn’t completed before the end of the school year, but until recently it used to be uncommon that public school …

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Reduced class size adds $13 million to $56.6 million WCPSS budget increase request

Wake County Public School System is one of the lucky ones when it comes to absorbing the impact of the General Assembly’s action on reduced class size in grades K-3, but it is going to cost the taxpayers more. Superintendent Jim Merrill told the Wake County School Board that his budget request includes an additional …

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School-Based Administrators Get Small Raise; Pay Scale Overhaul Coming

While teacher pay has dominated the headlines and discussion school school-based administrators have waited even longer for salary increases. Principals and assistants principals have not seen any meaningful salary scale adjustments and pay rate ranks 50th in the nation. The state budget didn’t increase school-based administrator pay a great deal this year; just 1.5 percent continuing and …

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State Budget Update

The conferees working on the state budget have agreed on the amount they will spend: $21.74 billion. This is $265 million more than the budget passed by the Senate, and $420 million less than the budget passed by the House. The House budget funded Driver Education and maintained funding for teaching assistants. If the agreement …

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Our House – In the Middle of our State: House Bond Proposal Provides for School Construction

On Thursday, the House passed a bond proposal that includes $500 million for school construction. Wake would be eligible for a share of $150 million equal to its proportion of statewide students.  It would also be eligible for a share of $70 million going to counties experiencing student enrollment growth.  (The other $280 million goes …

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And We’re Off…

Tuesday, July 7 was the first day of school for almost forty elementary and middle schools in the Wake County Public School System. And on Tuesday, July 7, WCPSS was operating on an interim budget because the North Carolina General Assembly has not finalized a budget for the 2015-2016 year. There are many funding questions …

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