Stronger Public Schools

The 2022 school year started with 4400 teacher vacancies. Principals are at risk of being penalized for falling student test scores during the pandemic. Teacher assistant positions have been slashed and NC continues to be at the bottom of teacher pay.

The Leandro decision continues to be litigated in the courts. Despite two courts’ rulings that $475 million dollars should be transferred from the state budget to our public schools, Republican leaders refuse to be told what to do by the judiciary.

Our children, educators, educational support staff deserve better. Over the last ten years with the focus on increasing charter school allotments and millions of dollars going to “opportunity scholarships” to private and charter schools, public education is suffering.

Every child has the constitutional right to a “sound, basic education.”  I fully support that right and will do everything possible to make that promise come true.