By Paul Fulton Public Ed Works WINSTON-SALEM (June 24, 2025) – It is unbelievable and embarrassing that our public schools (PreK-12) are where they are today, ranking 48th in the nation in per-student funding and 49th in funding effort. This while our state is booming economically and ranked No. 2 nationally as the best climate… READ MORE
RALEIGH (July 9, 2025) – Congress spent weeks recently debating a work requirement for Medicaid recipients – poor people. Well maybe we need a work requirement for state legislators. After six months in session, the legislators North Carolina elects to adopt a state budget every two years went home two weeks ago without adopting one.1… READ MORE
RALEIGH (July 2, 2025) – State legislators went home last week for a couple of months without adopting a budget for 2025-27 – their basic duty as legislators. The 2025-26 fiscal year started yesterday. And schools will open next month regardless of whether legislators have approved a budget – or raises for teachers. In the… READ MORE
RALEIGH (July 2, 2025) – Once upon a time, not many years ago, North Carolina had a dream. A dream shared by parents and politicians, by citizens and educators. We boldly dreamed our state would achieve excellence in public education. Not content to be average, we wanted to be in the top tier of states…. READ MORE
By N. King Prather Public Ed Works CARY (July 2, 2025) – My daughter, Lindsey Prather, is a public servant, an elected government official. A former educator, at 36 she is the youngest female in the North Carolina legislature. I could not be more proud of her. I could not be more afraid for her… READ MORE
RALEIGH (June 26, 2025) – The word of the year for 2025 is ‘uncertainty.’ So leaders of the state House think it’s a good idea to slow down state tax cuts scheduled for the next two years. “For the House it’s pretty simple,” state Rep. Donny Lambeth, R-Forsyth, Senior Chair of the House Appropriations Committee,… READ MORE
By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works WINSTON-SALEM (June 26, 2025) – North Carolina drivers may spot billboards advocating for better teacher pay out on the roads this summer as part of Public Ed Works’ latest campaign. About a dozen billboards are located along Interstate 40 and Interstate 85, concentrated in highly traveled areas like Raleigh… READ MORE
RALEIGH (June 19, 2025) – Rep. Donny Lambeth, R-Forsyth, is the senior chair of the state House committee that will help decide how to spend more than $65 billion1 over the next two years. Before he came to Raleigh, though, Lambeth served as Chair of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school board from 1994-2012 and cites education… READ MORE
Editor’s Note: The following editorial appeared Sunday, June 15 in the Greensboro News & Record and the Winston-Salem Journal. It is reprinted here with permission. In the 1993 film “The Fugitive,” which you may have seen one of the hundred million times it has aired on cable TV, the title character, played by Harrison Ford, is cornered on the… READ MORE
By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works DURHAM (June 24, 2025) – As the school year rolled to a close, kids’ faces lit up with excitement as they carefully chose 10 new books to take home with them for the summer. It’s all a part of Durham nonprofit Book Harvest’s Books on Break program, which started… READ MORE
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