State Board of Education Vision:Every public school student in North Carolina will be empowered to accept academic challenges, prepared to pursue their chosen path after graduating high school, and encouraged to become lifelong learners with the capacity to engage in a globally-collaborative society.
State Board of Education Mission:The mission of the North Carolina State Board of Education is to use its constitutional authority to guard and maintain the right of a sound, basic education for every child in North Carolina Public Schools.
Friday, March 25, 2022
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EdNC Alex Granados : Supreme Court to hear Leandro once again - For the third time in nearly 30 years, the North Carolina Supreme Court will take up the Leandro case. Monday night, the state’s highest court put out an order granting the request of the plaintiffs and defendants to have its justices take a look at the case. Also Monday night, the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice, Republican Paul Newby, reassigned the case from the current Judge David Lee to Special Superior Court Judge Michael Robinson. The news was first reported by The Carolina Journal earlier today.
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North Carolina uses an allotment system. That means the state has dozens of pots of money that are distributed either based on student data or based on school districts choosing -- and sometimes applying -- to use the money.
EMPLOYEE ALLOTMENTS: The state initially funds every school district the same amount of money per student for employees, like teachers and principals and assistant principals. Those amounts eventually vary district to district, because employees are paid different amounts based on their level of experience. Those employee allotments are designed to make sure one teacher or principal exists, per a certain number of students.
DOLLAR ALLOTMENTS: Other allotments are designed to serve students who meet certain criteria, such as children enrolled in special education, English language learner or academically and intellectually gifted programming. All three of those programs have funding caps, meaning a school can only be funded for a certain number of students enrolled in those programs; if they have more students enrolled in them, the school will foot the bill for the remaining cost of educating those children. Some allotments are designed for schools with high proportions of lower-income students or schools in smaller counties.
RULES: Allotments serve specific purposes and have limits on how the money can be spent. For example, the low-wealth county supplement can be used for substitute teachers, teaching assistants and textbooks, but it can’t be used for assistant principals or principals.
TERMINOLOGY: Terminology used to describe allotments may not always match, because allotments contain eligibility and funding formulas that can vary. The low-wealth school district supplemental fund created decades ago differs from the new low-wealth teacher and administrator salary supplement. Unlike the first low-wealth allotment, the new allotment doesn’t adjust its calculations related to taxable real estate for population, resulting in differing sets of counties being eliminated from eligibility.
I. Rep. Torbett welcoming comments II. Rep. Willis welcoming comments III. Presentation • Melissa Merrell, Chair, Union County Public Schools Board of Education • Dr. Andrew Houlihan, Superintendent, Union County Public Schools • Dr. Maria Pharr, President, South Piedmont Community College • Dr. Rhett Brown, President, Wingate University IV. Presentation Q&A V. Public Comment VI. Adjourn
Edgecombe Early College High School students in the Scholar Teacher program with Principal Matt Bristow-Smith (left) and Director Leigh Ann Webb (center). Courtesy of Matt Bristow-Smith, taken before COVID-19
Meet our ECPS Scholar Teachers! These aspiring educators are preparing to be ECPS teachers one day! Four Teacher Cadet classes. 200 internship hours working in ECPS schools. Mentoring with ECPS teachers and learning from the best! Who better to become our next generation of teachers than our current generation of Edgecombe scholars?
“The real goal of this program is that our scholars enter the college of education with real world experience under their belt, with their eyes wide open about what the teaching profession is like, and also with the commitment that they will come back to teach in Edgecombe County once they graduate,” Bristow-Smith said.
Earlier this year, the N.C. Department of Public Instruction launched a promising practices initiative, including an online dashboard spotlighting schools and districts across North Carolina. Educators can use this resource to identify and replicate promising practices, nominate a practice for inclusion, and build virtual professional learning networks.
Step one of the initiative was identifying the promising practices, which include for this year work-based learning, teacher housing, grow your own educator pipelines, authentic learning opportunities, principal leadership, literacy, summer programming, personalized learning, mental health, English Language Learners, and private-public partnerships for workforce development.
For each of the promising practices, EdNC is identifying one of the schools or districts to visit and learn more about as a way to lift up the people innovating in our classrooms and schools across the state.
Take a look at the dashboard .. Hereis a link to the dashboard. Click on it and take a look please.
The first thing you will notice is that each of the promising practices falls into one of six “strands.” The strands align with Operation Polaris, which is Superintendent Catherine Truitt’s strategic plan. You’ll find the work-based learning promising practices under learning recovery, for example.
FutureEdPhyllis W. Jordan Mar. 21, 2022: How to Read a Covid-Relief Plan - With billions in federal Covid-relief aid flowing to schools, the question on everyone’s mind is how districts and charter organizations will spend the money.
Lesson 1: All plans are not equal. - Number of districts planning to invest in a priority and by the amount of money they intend to spend.
Lesson 2: Don’t get distracted by shiny objects. - Our financial breakdown shows similar trends with academic recovery, staffing, and facilities.
