Editorial: Quality public schools for every child. Will legislators be part of the solution or the problem?
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 -- What legislators should know. f they don't act, the governor will. Not only does the governor have the authority to direct funding to implement the Comprehensive Remedial Plan - but should for some reason Gov. Roy Cooper be reluctant, Superior Court Judge David Lee has the power to order Cooper to use his authority to get it done.
Posted — UpdatedBut here’s what else legislators should know. If they don’t act, the governor will. Not only does the governor have the authority to direct funding to implement the order – but should for some reason Gov. Roy Cooper be reluctant, Superior Court Judge David Lee has the power to order Cooper to use his authority to get it done.
This is not conjecture or some pie-in-the-sky musing. This has been done before and, if necessary, needs to happen again.
What should happen? The budget the legislature sends to the governor should include both funding for the next two years of the Comprehensive Remedial Plan for providing every child access to a quality education and a commitment to fully implement the plan over the next eight years.
Do that -- include Medicaid expansion and Cooper’s plan for spending federal COVID-19 relief funds – and they’d have a deal he couldn’t refuse no matter what else – tax cuts, pork barrel spending for favored legislators -- they might stuff into the spending plan.
Simply put, legislators need to support and adopt the plan or get out of the way.
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