Name: Advocates push for full funding of Leandro plan
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Description: State Democrats and advocates for the Leandro plan push for funding that would provide a sound basic education for every North Carolina child, regardless of where they live.

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<p>and the north Carolina School of Science and Math. In 2011, republicans began to dismantle the legacy of education by privatizing corporate tax over sustainable funding for our north Carolina public education system. And now Under public Republican leadership in the general assembly. North Carolina is 39 in per pupil spending, which is where we were. Just before governor terry Sanford enacted the quality education program. We have an average teacher salary that is $9,000 less than the national average and we have $13 billion dollars in outstanding public school construction needs. All of this has culminated with the leandro case and the court ruling that the state of north Carolina has not lived up to its constitutional obligation to provide a sound basic education for every child in our state. The north Carolina General Assembly has failed our Children. We knew this decision was coming from Judge me. North Carolina is in a strong financial position, however, to meet these obligations and perhaps to do even more to provide funding that will ensure sound basic education for every child, especially those that are left behind low income and minority Children this case and the actions that the court will take this week are about more than our constitutional obligations. It is a moral obligation. Is it okay to deny equitable education to our Children to deny funding for public schools. Republican legislators may say that they do not have to fund the andro, but they should want to fund it because it is the right thing to do. It is my pleasure now to introduce my colleague in the Senate and the Senate Democratic whip Cemetery J told Jerry of Senate District 15. Thank you. Uh, Senator Robinson and um, thank you for what you do for the state of north Carolina and for public education. Um, good morning everyone. Um, is Senator Robinson mentioned, my name is jay chowdhury. I serve as the Senate Democratic whip and I just wanted to make a few comments with regard to the leandro decision that Senator Robinson touched upon. Um, in a little more than 24 hours. Judge David Lee will hold a hearing tomorrow afternoon to review the submissions from the parties about how to make sure that each and every child in our state receives a sound basic education and against the backdrop of Republican rhetoric about doing more for public schools and our teachers. The reality remains that republican leadership has thumbed its nose at the court and that the judiciary, Senator Berger, has argued that Judge Lee's motion is a violation of separation of powers, but the failure to comply with Judge Lee's order is a real constitutional violation that separates our school Children from the real chance to achieve the american dream. Senator Berger has said that Judge lee is unhinged, but our state constitution hinges on an independent judiciary that has a duty to determine whether or not our executive or legislative branch runs a foul of the state constitution. We continue to deny and delay our school Children the chance to receive a sound basic education, a missed opportunity that's been going on now for almost two decades and has denied a generation of our school Children. The chance that chance already. Uh the way we talk about public education and how we talk about funding public education may very well change after tomorrow afternoon and it will shed light that the state is sitting on $8.6 billion $1.7 billion dollars required to meet the first two years of the comprehensive plan. That will put art school Children first. I'll close by saying this that in a recent United States Supreme Court decision, the court wrote that America's public schools are the Nurseries of Democracy and if that's the case as a state, we haven't even really watered or nurtured the very plants were growing. Our Children are school teachers in our public education system. And with that I will now turn it over to introduce Christo Salazar who was the coalition head for every child north Carolina to discuss a report that they Charlene really issued called True Report. Thank you. Hello everyone. My name is Crystal Salazar and I am a coalition coordinator here every child and see. I am also a recent graduate from the King County Public School Systems. Um I come from a low income and rural community and come coming from mexican documented parents. I grew up as an english learner speaking spanish in my household and not you know, being able to communicate as well at school when I started feeling unseen and her due to those language barriers and when I received the opportunity to learn the language, I fall behind uh due to being pulled out of other subject classes and I can never really say that I saw myself represented in any of the three public schools that I have attended or valued as a student due to the lack of counselors and even diverse staff. It wasn't until high school that I realized that I was going to need to step up my game and figure things out for myself to have a future after graduating. And even though I haven't been able to return to school and reach higher ed, it's something that I'm still aiming towards, but I have been privileged to go straight into the workforce through my experience, working with community like programs like windows and now I have the opportunity to advocate for other students like me and even those who might have had it worse through my work with the coalition, the state's constitution guaranteed that all north Carolina Children have access to a sound basic education despite having billions of dollars in allocated revenue and being under court order, the General Assembly refuses to commit the funding to successfully implement the landfill plan and instead they are prioritizing tax cuts over providing students with public schools that make constitutional standards. The Landau Plan provides a detailed roadmap ensuring that every child has access to the sound basic education by 2028 and it eliminates inequity and opportunities uh, that mm, eliminating the inequity and funding deficiencies that prevent students from getting services and opportunities that owed addressing the critical needs of north Carolina's public school system and prioritizing investment and policy change. These changes look like qualified and diverse teachers and principals in every school who are supported with training and professional development. It looks like a school funding system that's adequate and equitable with schools with the greatest need. Receiving extra support reducing schools, narrow focus on standardized testing by lowering steaks and overhauling discriminatory accountability practices investing in high quality education programs such as early intervention prekindergarten and affordable daycare strengthening pathways from high school to college. Thanks very much by providing more relevant experience and training begins to address staffing shortages, particularly for teachers, nurses, counselors, therapists and Liberians and addresses the repairs at these statewide schools need. So nevertheless, the Landau plan would move us closer to reaching national average standards and put the state on a path towards realizing an equitable, high quality statewide education system. Thank you. And now I'm honored to introduce to you. Senator Crawford, thank you so much. Good morning everyone. I'm pleased to be here with all of you When I was 11 years old. My family made the decision like so many other families to relocate to North Carolina. My parents wanted a better future for me and my older brother, a future that included access to good jobs and a great public school education and that's exactly what happened. I'm the product of public education in north Carolina from the time we moved to Eastern Wake County through college. But fast forward to today. And as you've heard for decades, our legislative leaders have shirked their responsibility, their constitutional responsibility to provide a sound basic education to every child in our state. The true report that we're highlighting today emphasizes what I as a parent of school aged Children know firsthand that our state is failing our Children because they have not invested adequate resources in education. Just recently, we have seen how the shortage and bus drivers is impacting the lives of students and families and how we must make those investments and we know we have a severe teacher shortage and this report emphasizes how teachers are having to cover classes when they're when they're missing colleagues and how in some cases there's only one assistant for five classrooms and we know our school buildings across the state are in need of repair, proper ventilation system, especially in the midst of a pandemic, adequate space and more. Our students across the state deserve the very best and if our schools are busy combating mold, making do with inadequate space, leaking roofs and more as the true report indicates, we aren't adequately meeting our Children's educational needs. Education is where we deliver on the promise of equality as a nation and the state and the leandro plan gives us a solid roadmap so that every child has access to the education they not only need but deserve. It is time that we meet this obligation, not just because it is constitutionally required because our future and the future of our Children quite literally depends on it. And now it is my pleasure to introduce brian profit, the vice president for the north Carolina Association of Educators. Uh, thank you. Representative Crawford, uh, as uh, Senator Crawford said, my name is brian profit. I'm an 11 year veteran high school history teacher, currently serving as the vice president of the north Carolina Association of Educators. And since we're in the season for giving thanks. I'd like to start my remarks with some gratitude since long before dark this morning, educators have been waking up all over the state to show up for the young people of our communities. We've been warming up busses and navigating dark, dark roads. We've been serving breakfast to kids who didn't get it at home. We've been preparing our rooms and our lesson plans for their energetic arrival, greeting our kids with smiles and hugs and high fives as they walk through our doors from there, we've tended to their runny noses even though it's a risk to our own families. We've soothed their anxieties bandaged their wounds and done our best to fortify them to be their best selves in a really challenging world around them. We've helped them learn how to read, Play the trombone and solve complicated physics equations and it's 9:15 and we've already done all those things. We do this from Murphy DiMaggio and every corner of our state for every child, white, black and brown, native and immigrant, irrespective of how much money their families have. We do this because we believe in them and the future that they can create. We do this because we love them. And even though I am one of those people, I feel the need to offer thanks because it is not something our educators are feeling right now are jobs have always been the most difficult on the planet. This last decade, however, has been brutal. And the impact of underfunding and the privatization agenda of certain politicians in our state legislature has finally hit a tipping point, educators who haven't already walked away are seriously considering it. Now listen to this story from a Currituck county teacher that we received through the true portal. As an educator, I have experienced many shortages in funding. Through my, throughout my years, Most recently I've been moved to a modular classroom. I have had to fund furniture for my classroom. Yes, that's right furniture. My modular classroom came with no bullets and boards, no whiteboards and no cabinet or shelving storage. I brought the old furniture from my old classroom items for centers. However, I lost nine cabinets and three large shelving units. That is not all. I am still without a working filing cabinet. I have 22 students in a capped 21 student classroom, 22 students in a cap 21 classroom. I have a to only some of the day. Currently our school is going through a remodel and after a year of eating in my classroom through covid, we are eating breakfast, we're eating breakfast and lunch in our classrooms again. So not only did I get my bachelor's degree to be a teacher, I am also a custodian, sweeping floors, color uh, sanitizing tables and cleaning up spills and messes. I also must clean my toilet white, my sink and clean my mirrors. Yeah. This is a story from an educator on the front line right now that educator isn't feeling thanked or supported and my guess is she is waking up every day in the dark and wrestling with a devastating choice. Leave the profession and the students that she loves to try to stay afloat emotionally and financially or stick with her kids at an incalculable cost to her and her family. That is not a choice our educators should have to make. And I know from listening to stories every day that this frustration is fairly universal across the state right now and it doesn't have to be debate. Legislature has billions in reserves and the same politicians who don't want to fund our schools are also proposing even more tax cuts for the wealthiest north Carolinians instead of prioritizing the bank accounts of the wealthy, the leadership of the General Assembly should and can from the future of our state Daniel bell Leander decision mandated that equitable funding when I was in high school And I am here at 42 years old, halfway through my career speaking at a press conference to demand that we finally take action. It's time to show up for our kids the way that educators do every single day. Our kids, wealthy, middle class and poor, that brown and white immigrant and native are our future. We owe them and ourselves the very best. Our educators have been with them since before dark this morning doing our part and I'm grateful to every last one of them. I look forward to the day when I can thank the leadership of the General Assembly for their gratitude and full funding. Our kids cannot wait. Y'all fully fund Leandro and fund our future is now. Okay, so I think that wraps up the comments from our presenters and we will now open up for any questions. And um, if you have any questions that you could just identify yourself in direct and see you like a direct question too. J I see a hand up. Did you see that? I did not Children. Let's see the body, Leslie is everybody. I don't know if I can everybody a mute themselves or if you can pose the question maybe in the chat. Hey, this is Michael Highland. I just got a muted. Are you able to hear me? Yes, we can hear you, Michael um at a couple of questions. So we've seen in some other states where they've had cases like this play out that even after there was some sort of order from a judge, it took years for the legislature to comply with those orders and something of Washington. There was three years they were fined before they came up with the money to comply with that order. Would the faster way to do this be to just simply pass a budget And how close are you all to getting some kind of agreement, Sarah Robinson, do you want to answer that question first? Well, you can go ahead but my my my position would be that the current budget that we've seen thus far does not include the funding that Judge Lee is requiring. It does not include the 690 million In new funding and uh 1.7 billion for next year. So at this point we are not comfortable with the funding in the current budget. Now, we have not seen the most recent maybe jay has, but I'm sure the governor is pressing on the legislature to include the funding that the judges requiring and we rarely need it for our Children in in education, Michael, I would just simply add, I think Senator Robinson has covered the point. I think to your point, Yes. I mean, the easiest way to address the issue with regard to uh, making sure that our Children have a sound basic education is too make a commitment and fully uh, meet the court's requirement of $1.7 million. Uh, there, there is a real difference in between the Republican budget and Governor Cooper's budget on on that matter. And I think if you look at Governor Cooper's in the federal budget, um it does, it does meet the land rover, um, funding requirement and other folks could just beach, keep on, keep on mute when we're getting questions from reporters are greatly appreciated. We're getting some feedback. I see a hand from Laura Leslie, J CTV News and Laura Leslie ever whoever wants to go first. Hey, this is Laura Leslie with Wrl, can you hear me okay? We can. Great, thank you. Um so I don't know if you've had a chance yet to look at the state's response that we got this morning from Attorney General josh Stein. Um have you had a chance to look at an episode? Do you have a response to that? Uh Well, let's see. I have not. I saw the plaintiff's response, but I have not seen the defendant's response, which I think was you today. Right, That's correct. Yeah, maybe you can update us, Laura. I mean, I'm happy if you're looking for comment. I mean I'm I'm happy to look at the spots and follow up with you. That would be perfect. Thank you. Let's see. Do we um is there tv news? Is that someone who the issue on a mute wow. Um Leslie, is there any other questions just trying to check here in the chat if you want to? I don't have any more questions um in the chat or otherwise. Uh but we'll be sending out some documents here after um further questions from reporters. Anyone. All right. If not, I I appreciate your time and we'll be sending out some documents and uh this morning to you and we'll certainly follow up with a response for laura's question. Well, thank you folks for coming. We appreciate your time. Have a great morning. Thank you. Nice lot. Yeah.</p>

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I'm meteorologist K Campbell in the wr a severe weather center. It's been a warm spring so far. In fact, when you look at the spring to date numbers, it's actually the second warmest on record at RDU running about 4.5 degrees above normal and for rainfall about an inch and a half below normal. And we really need some rain. You know, it's been a pretty dry April so far we've seen less than an inch inch of rain this month tomorrow. It's a nice dry day for us, but I, you know, at least it's gonna be a nice day, right? 72 in the Triangle, as well as Siler City in Wilson. 70 in Rocky Mount. 67 though in Roxboro and 67 for Roanoke Rapids, a little cooler to the north. 76 degrees in Fayetteville, 73 Goldsboro in Smithfield and 75 in Southern Pines. It is going to be a little bit cooler in the morning because cold front moved through 50 degrees for the low in the triangle, right around 7 a.m. by 10 a.m. We're in the upper fifties, lunchtime, mid sixties and then in the lower seventies during the afternoon, dinner time, temperatures dip back into the upper sixties. A cold front passed earlier this evening and behind it, we are going to be drying out but cooling down briefly. It's not a huge drop in temperatures, but we will see this dip in the jet stream delivering some cooler air. We start to see a reversal of the jet stream flow and that changes really on Sunday with a warming southwest wind at the surface and at the jet stream level, that's going to drive temperatures up to 80 beginning on Sunday and the eighties will last into next week with a strengthening ridge of high pressure. So we expect a big climb in temperatures just throughout the course of the weekend, 48 degrees Friday morning, but back up to 80 by Sunday afternoon and then much warmer weather is on the way for next week. We're looking at seventies for the next few days with mostly cloudy skies for the weekend days. The sun's back out though next Monday and with a warming wind, we're back in the upper eighties three days in a row all the way up to 89 on Tuesday. Tuesday might be the 1st 90 degree day of the year for parts of North Carolina.

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Seen some activity just in the past 10 minutes or so. I want to take you outside Sky five right now for a live look at the scene. We saw a van being escorted to the runway there and someone got out and now there appears to be a really careful inspection of the debris going on. So we're working to confirm if that may be the NTSB investigation team arriving at the scene. Let's zoom out and give you some about where this is. There are two main runways at RDU International and this is in the grassy field next to the runway that mostly serves terminal one on the east side of the airport, that runway remains closed while this investigation continues at the top of your screen. That is the other main runway that serves terminal two, mostly that runway is open. So we have two things going on here that could affect your flights for the rest of the day and maybe even into tomorrow, the airport takeoff and landing capacity is roughly reduced by half because they are only working with one runway. And if you have a flight coming out of terminal one, maybe Southwest, you're going to have to take that crossover all the way out to that other runway. It's going to add a lot of extra time.

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Sky 5 flies over plane crash at RDU

RDU Airport Authority gives an update on a plane crash that sent a physician and pilot to the hospital. The crash occurred Wednesday morning on a flight that took off from Wilmington.

<p>Landguth first, I want to extend my thoughts to those affected by this morning's aircraft accident and thank our first responders for their quick action to respond. The airport authority and its mutual aid partners responded to an aircraft accident at RDU involving a general aviation aircraft. The accident occurred at approximately 10:10 a.m. in the grass next to runway five, right 23 left. The flight was arriving from Wilmington, North Carolina. The A the aircraft is owned by medical Air Inc and operated by UN C air operations. The aircraft had two people on board, one pilot and one passenger. Both were transported to area hospitals. The federal A Bush administration issued a ground stop that was lifted at approximately 1130 this morning. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have both been notified. The National Transportation Safety Board is en route and expected to arrive within the next hour at which time we will conduct an accident investigation. Rdu's runway five left 23 right reopened to departing and arriving aircraft around 11:30 a.m. this morning. Are you experiencing approximately 70 delays and several arriving flights were diverted to other airports? Until ground stock was lifted, travelers should contact their airline for the latest updates regarding the flight status. And of course questions about the identity and condition of the pilot and passenger should be directed to UN C health. And at this time I'll try to answer any questions. You may have, uh, the one, any other accidents in, in the past. I'm not familiar with any other accidents have occurred with that operation. I don't know, uh, that's the role of the National Transportation Safety Board. They'll actually come in and do the investigation. Uh, and at some point in the future, they write up a report and determine what the cause of the accident was. You know, that there was no notification to the airport authority or to the FAA uh about any type of emergency on board. Do we have a guy? We don't, all we know that we've got them out of the airplane and we've got them transported to local hospitals. We know situations like this and delays have a ripple effect on, you know, flights. Do you have any idea what type of impact we'll see here in our view and for not sure, but what we're going to encourage everybody to do is reach out to your airlines. We'll be able to give you real time information about the impact of your particular flight. Ok. I believe some of them went to Greensboro and I think a couple went to Charlotte as well. What, what to be impacted due to the NTSD. Say that one more time at this point in time, what we call the west side of our airport is now open the investigation they'll conduct will all be on the east side. So at this point, we are anticipating normal operations returning to normal operations from this point forward. I don't think that anything that they're doing regarding the investigation or where they would have to investigate would have any impact to the west side of the airport. No, the aircraft is still on the airfield itself. It's on the east side of the field. So terminal one that runways the east side of the field, that's where the debris field actually sits, the west side of the field is open and operational and safe to operate. Not that I'm aware of in operations for you throughout this event today. What was your main concern concerning the passengers that were in the internals? Right. I think our primary focus when, when that accident occurred were the two people sitting in that aircraft? Our primary mission is to make sure we can get to them and try to rescue them and try to make sure that we can get them in a safe condition as fast as we possibly can. Uh secondarily is trying to figure out then how we recover and get our operations back up and running. Mhm. How does that affect? What goes on term? Yeah, so great. Question. So the team has figured out a way to get all the aircraft they're gonna operate at terminal one. Your Southwest develops. Uh We've got a crossover taxi way that we can actually get them through our general aviation aircraft. We've got a crossover taxiway, we can get them to. But the rest of the uh accident scene is actually kind of isolated and closed and locked off. Yeah, you're terminal one at this point in time. Once they can get back on their schedule, it's going to be a normal operations. All right. Thank you guys. All right. Thank you. Grab your phone, right.</p>

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