Category Archives: NCGA

GUEST POST: What I Saw At The #NCGA Senate Ed Cmte Mtg

Posted on June 5, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

This is a guest post (below the break)from a reader who attended yesterday’s Senate Education committee meeting, where SB 812 was discussed and passed. SB 815 was also discussed and passed, which is important as it serves to protect our student’s privacy and data.

Pay attention to the portion where Mark Jewell of the NCAE steps up with prepared remarks. In those remarks, he quotes an independent study and says he will make it available to the Committee. I’ve challenged them to make it public and include the methodology.

@NCAE’s Mark Jewell: You said you had a study that said teachers love #CommonCore. Share it with the public – including the metholdology.

— LL1885 – A.P. Dillon (@LadyLiberty1885) June 5, 2014

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Report from Senate Committee Meeting 6/4

Yesterday the Senate Education Committee met to vote on 2 bills, SB 815 and SB 812 Continue reading →

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#HB1061 On House Calendar 6-4-14

Posted on June 3, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

Today, the House Education Committee passed HB 1061 (Replace Common Core To Fit NC’s Needs). Edition two of the bill has been filed with the history. Changes include a smaller commission size and tightening of certain language. It also calls for repealing of 115C-174.11(c)(3) in section three. Read in detail about that section and see the run down of what went on at the House Education Committee meeting here.

According to the bill history for HB 1061, the bill has been removed from the Appropriations Committee calendar and placed on the House Calendar for tomorrow, June 4th.

Action: Get on the phone. Call your Representative. Ask them to please support HB 1061 and vote YES.

Also important is SB 812. This is the companion bill to HB 1061. The Senate Education Committee will hear discussion on SB 812 tomorrow at 1 pm. Read here to see how you can support SB 812. Continue reading →

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#NCGA House Ed Cmte Hears #HB1061

Posted on June 3, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

Today at the General Assembly, the House Education committee heard discussion on HB 1061 – Replace Common Core To Meet NC’s Needs. This is a summary of the meeting. To see the tweets I sent out as the meeting occurred, visit my Storify article.
First the good news: It passed through the committee.

#HB1061 moves forward: 27 to 16 motion passes. BILL GOES TO FLOOR! #hb1061 #stopcommoncore #ncga

— LL1885 – A.P. Dillon (@LadyLiberty1885) June 3, 2014

The session opened up with Rep. Holloway giving a brief introduction of what the bill does and doesn’t do. Then an aide read the summary of the bill and it’s sections. One change from the original bill with regards to the commission is that it is now set at 9 members instead of 17. Elected officials have been removed from the mix. I question if that includes Dr. Atkinson. She’s an elected official with a clear conflict of interest as President Elect of one of the DC trade groups that created the standards and her strong bias in favor of Common Core that she makes plain in continual insulting those who oppose it. Continue reading →

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Occupy Monday 6/2/14 Edition

Posted on June 2, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

It’s Monday again. Time to Occupy.

Today’s performance: Environmental and Health Justice

Well, they marched. This time the prop was a collection of letters they shoved into the doors of the legislature.

Well, 30 of the occupiers headed inside the legislature to protest according to the official Occupy Monday news outlet, WRAL.

The Occupy Monday News said that 13 stayed inside and when the building closed were told to leave. For some reason WRAL doesn’t say they were arrested for trespassing when they refused to leave, instead they use the language “cited” for trespassing:

“The 13 protesters who remained after a State Capitol Police officer advised the group at 5:07 p.m. that the building was closed and were asked to leave were taken into custody, cited for trespassing and released about two hours later.” – WRAL

ABC11 clarifies what WRAL won’t: Continue reading →

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#DM7 Article: Far Left NC Dem Protests Return

Posted on June 1, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

This is a reposting of my weekly DaTechGuy column: Far Left NC Dem Protests Return

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By A.P. Dillon

When I began writing here at DaTechGuy, I opened with a series of articles that laid out the landscape of the Left in North Carolina called “A Primer on The Left In NC”. You can read parts two, three and four. One of the main characters in that series is Reverend William Barber of the NC NAACP. He began a series of protests called “Moral Monday”, which in 2013 led to nearly 900 arrests at the NC General Assembly.

The list of complaints by this ‘movement’ are what one might expect — demands for more big government, more spending, more Medicaid, opposing the very popular Voter ID law and a sustained assault on the Republican leadership in the state through a strategy calling for activists to “cripple, eviscerat, pressure and slam” them. Moral Monday desperately wants to emulate the protests in Wisconsin, but to date have yet to do much besides become the punchline to local jokes. Continue reading →

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NC Common Core Action Alert: Support HB 1061

Posted on June 1, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

Common Core Fighters –

On Tuesday June 3rd, the NC General Assembly’s House Education Committee will be considering HB 1061 – Replace Common Core To Meet NC’s Needs. The meeting will be at 10 am, room 643 of the Legislative Office Building.

ACTION ITEM:

Email each Representative BEFORE JUNE 3rd and ask them to support HB 1061 – Replace Common Core To Meet NC’s Needs. Below the sample letter is a list of the email contacts for the House Education Committee.

Sample Suggestion Letter: Continue reading →

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