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Category Archives: June Atkinson
#NCED Updates: Cooper Vetoes Read To Achieve revamp, useless background checks and Ed Headlines
This installment of NCED Updates covers Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of Sen. Phil Berger’s bill that revamps Read to Achieve, useless background checks on teachers and headlines from across the state and the nation. Continue reading
#NCED Updates – 3 SBE Resignations, 2 Out At DPI & Durham tries to Deplatform Charter Schools
There was a lot of big news in NC Education last week. Three members of the State Board of Education tendered resignations, while two employees at the Department of Public Instruction ‘left’. Also, the radical Durham City Council tried out a test case for deplatforming school choice in their district and much more. Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, EDUCATION, June Atkinson, LL1885, NC DPI, NC Ed Updates, NCAE, Organize2020, School Choice
Tagged Adam Levinson, Durham City Council, NC DPI, NC State Board Of Education, Stu Egan
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Opinion: A.P. Dillon – Outside Review of Revisions to Common Core Happen Anyway
To Review or Not To Review? The question of having an outside party review changes made to the Common Core Standards in NC has sparked theatrics and various tantrums from Educrats across the state. Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, EDUCATION, June Atkinson, LL1885, NC Board Of Education, NC DPI
Tagged Common Core, NC State Board Of Education, Sandra Stotsky
NC Begins K-8 Common Core Revisions, Seeks Public Input
The Common Core standards are still alive and well in North Carolina and next round of lipstick on the pig is already underway. Continue reading
Posted in Am Lens, Common Core, EDUCATION, June Atkinson, NC Board Of Education, NC DPI
Tagged Common Core, NC Board Of Education, NCDPI
WaPo Cites D.C. Graduation Rate at 76%, But There is a Problem.
In an article at The Washington Post, the District of Columbia graduation rate was reported at 79%. However, there is a big ‘but’ that comes along with that number as 1% met math standards and 4% met reading standards. Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, EDUCATION, June Atkinson, NC Board Of Education, NC DPI
Tagged Common Core, D.C., EOC, EOG, Graduation Rates, Math, Reading
The Actual Graduation Rate In NC Isn’t 85.8%
North Carolina Superintendent June Atkinson was recently cited in a WRAL article about the state’s graduation rate.
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina released its latest public school performance data Thursday, showing the state’s graduation rate and school grades improved last year.
he state’s graduation rate increased slightly, from 85.6 percent in 2014-15 to 85.8 percent last school year. This marks the 11th consecutive year that the rate has improved. In 2005-06, the state’s graduation rate was 68.3 percent.
“If I could do a back flip about the graduation rate, I would do that,” State Superintendent June Atkinson told reporters Thursday. (WRAL, 9/1/16)
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NC DPI) also put out a press release touting the increase in graduation rates.
As this site has previously pointed out, this rate is not the actual graduation rate when one factors in the now famous “career and college readiness” that Common Core was alleged to bring. Continue reading
Posted in EDUCATION, EXCLUSIVE, June Atkinson, LL1885, NC DPI, The Articles
Tagged Graduation Rates, June Atkinson
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NC Dept. Of Public Instruction Touts 4th Year of Powerschool, Ignores Failings
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction sent out a press release yesterday, hailing the success of Powerschool, which captures student data and information statewide.
The press release also didn’t mention Powerschool’s failings.
These failings include a $7 million dollar maintenance rate, hundreds of ‘slow connectivity incidents’, missing deliverables and suspect payments to ‘contractors’. Continue reading
Posted in EXCLUSIVE, June Atkinson, LL1885, NC DPI
Tagged June Atkinson, NC DPI, Powerschool
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