A battle to shape perception over whether North Carolina’s public school spending is being cut or is just right is heating up with the traditional academic year less than a week away for school districts in mountain counties.
Progress NC Executive Director, Gerrick Brenner says Governor Pat McCrory’s comment that this year’s education budget is the largest in North Carolina history isn’t fair to say.
In the first major education bill we’ve seen in the last decade, the U.S. House passed a bill last Friday that would undo many of the federal guidelines set in No Child Left Behind.