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Letter to Wake Schools Superintendent – Partial Reply
Yesterday I wrote to the Wake County Superintendent, Jim Merrill, about some questions I had with the new budget. You can read the letter here: Letter To Wake Cty Superintendent. I received a reply back from Stella Shelton, interim Chief Communications Officer.
Here is what was received (below). Note that text in blue is Ms. Shelton’s. Text in Black represents my original emailed text. I’ve got a few comments about this reply at the end of this article. Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, EDUCATION
Tagged Budget, Common Core, Jim Merrill, Wake County Schools
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Hey, AP & Local Media — About Those #DHHS Positions…
There’s been a bit of a stir about the pay raises of two NC DHHS employees in the last week or so. The entire story, to me, seems like a giant deflection play by various groups who lost argument about the education budget. At any rate, this past week, the AP was reporting that these positions were never “posted”. I had a suspicion as to why these positions were raised they way they were, so I did some poking around and digging.
I reached out to a few sources who know how state employment works and did a little bit of reading over at OSP. Here’s the link, in case someone out there needs to research: ARTICLE 1 – Chapter 126 – State Personnel Act.pdf
I’m going to break down the article addressing the big things one at a time; my findings are in bold. Via CBS Charlotte: Continue reading
Posted in A.P. Dillon (LL1885), Media Bias, POLITICS NC
Tagged Budget, North Carolina, Pat McCrory
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School Vouchers In NC For Low Income Students
In all the manufactured chaos that descended on the NC General Assembly in the last week, an important item in education seemingly got lost in the mix. Governor McCory rolled out a voucher program for low income students called “Opportunity Scholarships”.
The nuts and bolts of the program were in a press release that went out on July 28th: Continue reading
Posted in A.P. Dillon (LL1885), EDUCATION, POLITICS NC, THE LEFT
Tagged Budget, EDUCATION, NCGA, Opportunity Scholarships, Pat McCrory, Vouchers
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