Category Archives: NCGA

CCSSO Pres. Elect’s Statement on NC Move To Drop Common Core

Posted on April 24, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

NC State Superintendent and CCSSO President Elect JuneAtkinson was not on hand at the last meeting of the NC General Assembly’s Common Core study committee. It was odd that she would not be present at the event where the findings of the committee on her Common Core Standards were being read. Perhaps she didn’t want to tell the throng of reporters there this was all just a lot of bearing false witness.

Oh well, a press release is just as good, right? Emphasis is mine below. Continue reading →

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Town Hall Or Campaign Event?

Posted on April 18, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

Update: Welcome, Carolina Plott Hound Readers! On Wednesday evening at Cox Mills High School, there was a town hall meeting held. Or was it a Democrat campaign event? Hard to tell since it opened with a campaign speech yet closed … Continue reading →

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Common Core Conflicts Of Interest from Massachusetts to NC

Posted on April 14, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

Well, as Common Core and the high stakes testing controversy heats up nationwide, more calls for accountability and of conflicts of interest emerge. We’ve seen Oklahoma Governor Fallin be called out for her dual role with the National Governors Association. This time in Massachusetts.

North Carolina has a similar conflict, as our State Superintendent of Education also serves as President Elect of the CCSSO – one of the two trade organizations responsible for Common Core and who hold the copyright on the standards. Continue reading →

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#DM7 Article: Biden On The Loose: Voter Expansion Project

Posted on April 13, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

This is a reposting of my weekly column at DaTechGuy Blog: Biden On The Loose: Voter Expansion Project

See how Joe wants you to “Stand Up” to expand voting rights and how in NC, voter fraud that has ties to multiple other states has been exposed. Continue reading →

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Merit Pay Per The President?

Posted on April 10, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

Step back to 2009, Barack Obama makes the case for Merit Pay.

Here’s what he said in 2009: “It’s time to start rewarding good teachers, and stop making excuses for bad ones. It’s time to demand results from government at every level. It’s time to prepare every child, everywhere in America, to out-compete any worker, anywhere in the world.” Source: WUNC
Merit Pay for teachers in North Carolina and the removal of tenure has a lot of people talking. Depending on who you ask, you get a different answer. Some say competition motivates continual improvement while others tout cooperation as the way. Continue reading →

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Occupy Monday Protester To Fill Late Senator Nesbitt’s NCGA Seat

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

Terry Van Duyn has finally won an election. In 2012, she ran for Buncombe county commissioners in District 3 and lost miserably, coming in dead last out of 4 candidates. She’ll be filling the seat of the late Senator Nesbitt (NC-49) for the rest of what remains of his term. Here’s Van Duyn on the campaign trail in April 2012. She was Occupy Monday before it was all the rage:

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Van Duyn wasn’t a shoe-in however, because it took three rounds of voting to get a majority… Continue reading →

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