By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works RALEIGH (May 14, 2026) – During Teacher Appreciation Week, Public Ed Works staff launched our latest billboard campaign and shared heartwarming stories about the teachers who shaped us. And this week, legislators announced an agreement on average teacher raises of 8%! We’re grateful to the legislators who hammered out the… READ MORE
The march: What don’t legislators get?
RALEIGH (May 1, 2026) – Thousands of North Carolina teachers made a lot of noise in Raleigh on Friday. The question is whether they made a difference. Teachers came from Halifax County, from Buncombe, from Mecklenburg, Forsyth, Guilford, Chatham and Johnston, asking for better pay – and even more, respect from the legislature in a… READ MORE
Vouchers up, local public schools down
GREENSBORO (May 5, 2026) – North Carolinians – and especially Guilford County residents – connect these dots: News Item, May 1: State vouchers send $31 million to private schools in Guilford County. News Item, April 15: Guilford Schools ask for $25 million budget increase to pay teachers more, enhance security. DO YOU SEE what’s happening… READ MORE
46th in teacher pay: NC stands still. Other states surge ahead.
RALEIGH (April 29, 2026) – What a predictable embarrassment. As the only state in the country that didn’t adopt a new budget for 2025-26, North Carolina didn’t do squat for its public-school teachers last year. Other states did for their teachers. So it’s no surprise that North Carolina – the state that likes to boast… READ MORE
Onslow Odyssey: No budget means students can’t afford to compete
By James Strope Principal, Onslow Early College High School EDITOR’S NOTE: Below, an eastern North Carolina principal shares one unique struggle students face after legislators failed to pass a budget on time. JACKSONVILLE (April 29, 2026) – Odyssey of the Mind is a creative problem-solving competition that has been around since 1978. The students select… READ MORE
Legislators: Do your job
RALEIGH (April 23, 2026) – State legislators returned to Raleigh for their so-called “short” session this week with some very basic jobs to finish. Here’s what they need to do: Adopt a budget. This is one of the most fundamental tasks legislators are elected to do. Yet thanks to the state Senate’s stubbornness over planned… READ MORE
Parents urge legislators to increase teacher pay
By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works (RALEIGH) – Several nonprofits and concerned citizens gathered in front of the NC General Assembly Tuesday just hours before the start of the new session to demand lawmakers pass a budget that supports public education. Organizing groups include Red Wine & Blue, Every Child NC and Pastors for NC… READ MORE
Former UNC soccer coach, daughter plead for school funding
By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works CHAPEL HILL (April 23, 2026) – Former Coach Anson Dorrance of the UNC-Chapel Hill women’s soccer team and his daughter, Natalie Dorrance Harris, a school librarian, are speaking out on the public education funding crisis. Dorrance has 21 NCAA championships under his belt, which is the most by a… READ MORE
Tom Oxholm: When will business leaders wake up?
By Tom Oxholm RALEIGH (April 16, 2026) – There is a crisis in North Carolina of underfunding our public schools (including Charters). Consider these facts: •NC is 50th in the country in average per pupil funding from state and local sources (Education Law Center’s December 2025 report). •Our ~100,000 teachers have the lowest starting pay… READ MORE
Workforce demands, now and always
By Eric Johnson MORGANTON (April 16, 2026) – For North Carolina’s public universities, the balance between idealism and pragmatism was baked in from the beginning. The state’s original constitution calls for the promotion of “all useful learning,” and the University of North Carolina’s 1789 charter commends higher education to “consult the happiness of a rising… READ MORE
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