RALEIGH (November 6, 2025) – As of this week, we are less than a year away from the 2026 midterm elections.

And you need to start paying attention.

•Pay attention to the size of K-12 public school classes for your kids and grandkids.

•Pay attention to what state legislators do – or more likely, don’t do – to improve teacher salaries in a state that currently ranks 43rd in average teacher pay and is hemorrhaging teachers.

•Pay attention to the hundreds of millions of your taxpayer dollars legislators redirect as vouchers for students to attend private schools, the vast majority of them religious schools.

•Pay attention to the excuses our state legislators serve up – coupled with an enabling NC Supreme Court – for not meeting the public education needs of a rapidly growing state.

•Pay attention to the politicization of our public (and private) universities at every opportunity.

•And pay attention to the incredible work our state’s community colleges do – despite atrocious faculty salaries – to supply workers for jobs in new industries that are surging into North Carolina.

IF YOU DON’T LIKE the way things are going, don’t just whine.

Do something about it.

You’ll have an opportunity to do something about it first in primary elections on March 3, 2026.

Then you’ll have a decisive opportunity to do something about it in the general election on Nov. 3, 2026.

Put them on your calendar.

And do something about it.

Back candidates who support public education, from pre-school to grad school.