Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

Our State Board of Election has a powerful vision for our children's education. The Legislature must do a better job of funding that vision. We need a strong voice from Eastern North Carolina to take the message that the legislator's formulas for allocating funds to our schools, just don't work for small rural schools. They don't work for struggling local governments who are forced to close local community schools and direct resources to fund positions that the state requires but fails to fund. They don't work when local governments are forced to complement the state's plan and renders us unable to provide our teachers with much deserved salary supplements. During our great Governor James Hunt's tenure, North Carolina was hailed as "the Education State". We can no longer say that with pride when you drop from 16th to 40th in Education rankings.

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