Category Archives: EDUCATION

NCSPIN: Fitzsimon Doesn’t Get Why McCrory Would Stand Up For NC Children

Posted on December 17, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

From the, “OMG …REALLY?” Files:

Just when you think Fitzsimon can’t get any more obtuse & partisan… https://t.co/OIOa4Kgbup BECAUSE THIS ISSUE WILL COME HERE, CHRIS.

— A.P. Dillon – LL1885 (@LadyLiberty1885) December 16, 2015

The video link in the tweet is to an NC SPIN clip titled, “Why is Gov. McCrory involved in a Virginia transgender court case?”.

So what transgender case is blinkin’ Chris being obtuse about?

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#WCPSS Has ‘Student Growth’ — in Charters, Homeschools, Private Schools

Posted on December 17, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Earlier in the week I highlighted a narrative about student growth in Wake County Schools.

In that earlier article, I said the following:

“These type of articles also serve another purpose, which is to attack school choice. Meanwhile, they are ignoring the multiple underlying causes of why parents are running for the exits of the public school system.

School safety is a big and increasing concern of parents as is the way the Wake Board and the NC Department of Public Instruction have ignored the parents complaints about Common Core.”

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UNC Paper Class’s Underlying Scandal: K-12 Failures

Posted on December 16, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

I’ve been waiting for an article to accurately capture what I had considered to be the biggest scandals of all regarding the Wainstein report on UNC’s Paper Class scandal.
That biggest scandal, for me, was the question of how some of these kids even GOT into UNC.
The wait is over.

The Pope Center’s Jesse Saffron and Jenna A. Robinson have produced an article entitled, The Biggest Lesson from the UNC Academic Scandal Has Been Ignored.

The key point from the article is emphasized in the excerpt below.

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Posted in Academic Standards Review Commission, Higher Ed, June Atkinson | 4 Comments

WRAL Concerned About #WCPSS ‘Student Growth’

Posted on December 15, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

In the last week, there have been a number of articles about student growth in Wake County Schools.

Some of these articles focused on what role Wake schools play in boosting the local economy. These articles, in my opinion, are laying a narrative groundwork for a coming bond proposal or tax increase.

We already know the Wake County Commissioners are ready to raid our wallets and have already given Wake County schools more money. It’s not enough, they will claim as they point to articles like the one I am about to deconstruct.

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NC Auditor: NCAE “Refused to furnish the information” – #ncga #ncpol

Posted on December 12, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

The North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) has refused to furnish information as requested multiple times by the NC State Auditor’s office, according to the audit report published on December 11th, 2015. From the audit’s findings: We were not able … Continue reading →

Posted in A.P. Dillon (LL1885), BlueprintNC, EDUCATION, Moral Monday, NCAE, NCGA, Organize2020 | Tagged | 3 Comments

ACTION ALERT: CONTACT THE NC BOARD OF ED – #StopCommonCore

Posted on December 11, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Citizens, we are on the homestretch. Various groups, nonprofits and Pro-Common Core entities are pressuring the State Board of Ed to drop the Academic Standards Review Commission’s reports into the trash.
YOU NEED TO ACT NOW.
It is critical that you act and contact the NC Board of Education. Tell them to accept and act on the Commission’s reports! Continue reading →

Posted in Academic Standards Review Commission, Common Core, EDUCATION, NC Board Of Education | Tagged , , | 2 Comments