Tag Archives: Aim Higher NC

Why Won’t @NCAE Answer A Simple Question?

Posted on February 17, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

I’ve asked the NCAE’s Twitter account multiple times if they are involved in the formation of Aim Higher NC. It’s been nearly two weeks since I began asking and have received no reply. I’d give them the benefit of the doubt of not seeing the tweet, had it only been one. I’ve sent half a dozen now, including one this morning. Continue reading →

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Organize2020 Happy To Answer Questions.. Other Than Who Tweets For Them

Posted on February 7, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

In the space of a week NCAE’s protest arm, Organize2020, went from ‘happy to answer questions’ to hurling insults when I asked one they didn’t want to answer. Specifically, I asked who I was talking to in our first conversation. Continue reading →

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NCAE’S ‘Member Led’ Organize2020 Denies Forming Aim Higher NC

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

On January 31st, I received an unsolicited offer to answer questions from the NCAE’s member-led protest arm, Organize2020. This offer to answer questions came on Twitter. I happened to be online when Organize20202 tweeted to me… Continue reading →

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AIM HIGHER NC Refuses To Name Backers

Posted on January 31, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

A website containing a letter urging people to sign a petition to raise teacher pay was pushed yesterday in Charlotte. The website is for a nonprofit group called Aim Higher NC. Ann Helms of the Your Schools blog on the Charlotte Observer notes there isn’t much information as to who this group is or who funds them. A little digging found a Raleigh Tax lawyer filed their incorporation paperwork and a participant in the events has ties to Organize2020, the protest arm of the NCAE that made a stir with their union promoting website and protest propaganda flyer sent home with kids in November of 2013. Continue reading →

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