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The extra pay will costs as much as $6.1 million more starting next year. It's just the latest effort to reduce canceled bus routes and raise pay for hard-to-fill positions.
Emily Walkenhorst, WRAL education reporter
The week in North Carolina politics from WRAL's NC Capitol team
Monday, Feb. 13, 2023 -- We are not talking about throwing money at problems and hoping they somehow get fixed. We're talking about research-based solutions and shifting from viewing education as an expense to viewing it as an investment in our state, our economy, and our communities.
The Public School Forum of North Carolina's annual Eggs & Issues breakfast coincides with worsening teacher shortages in schools and mental health among young people.
That's a smaller-scale plan than what has been discussed for months. It would boost teacher pay and classroom support while subjecting teachers to more consequential evaluations.
A look back at North Carolina's 2022 midterm elections, and outlook on 2023 legislative session
The plan now heads to the State Board of Education, where members already say they favor sending it to the Legislature.
As questions linger, leaders still want recommendations to lawmakers this winter.
North Carolina's teacher licensure proposal would significantly increase teacher pay and create more teacher leadership positions -- moves aimed at enticing more teachers into the ranks and stemming an ongoing exodus of educators. But some teachers are skeptical.
The state is requiring some teachers complete 137.5 to 168 total estimated hours of reading instruction training, or the equivalent of 17 to 21 eight-hour workdays.
Nearly a month into the school year, staffing shortages are still impacting students, parents, teachers, bus drivers and others in Wake County Public Schools.
Nia Harden, WRAL reporter
Leaders want to tie employment to outcomes for the state's more than 100,000 public school teachers.
Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022 -- Capitol Broadcasting Company's editorial cartoonist.
As students and teachers were heading back to the classroom, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press" and said: "Adjusted for inflation, over the last 25 years teachers have made a $29 increase in their salary." PolitiFact checks his claim.
Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact reporter
Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022 -- Capitol Broadcasting Company's editorial cartoonist.
Governor tells reporters he has "no idea" whether he'll run for the U.S. Senate in 2026, and that he's about to study up on a proposed overhaul to the way North Carolina pays its teachers.
Travis Fain, WRAL state government reporter
Teachers say the problem isn't the current licensure system -- it's the lack of money spent toward helping and compensating teachers.
Laura Leslie, WRAL capitol bureau chief, and Emily Walkenhorst, WRAL education reporter
State education leaders are backing a plan to shake up how North Carolina teachers are paid, claiming it'll help ease the teacher shortages facing the state. However, the state's largest teachers group says the plan will worsen existing problems.
A mailer produced by the N.C. Futures Action Fund, a liberal group, accuses state Sen. Kirk deViere (D-Cumberland) of voting against Medicaid expansion, the governor's budget and teacher raises. PolitiFact North Carolina checks the claim.
Paul Specht, PolitiFact reporter
The state's draft proposal would be an upheaval of the system the state has never seen before.
As a significant overhaul to the rules surrounding state's struggling teacher workforce, the draft has received both considerable praise and also considerable trepidation from subcommittee members.
Wake County Public School System leaders hope a $1,350 bonus for cafeteria workers will encourage them to stay in their jobs.
Knightdale High School was pretty busy for a Saturday, but people weren't going to class they were there for a job.
Adam Owens, WRAL anchor/reporter
