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, February 3, 2023
Highlights
NC DPI Press Release | February 1, 2023: NC Teacher Ranks Held Steady Last Year Despite Lingering Disruptions From COVID Pandemic - Data presented today to the State Board of Education as part of the Department of Public Instruction’s annual report on the state’s teacher workforce showed an attrition rate of 7.78% for the 12-month period between March 2021 and March 2022, a decline of about 0.4% from the 8.2% attrition rate during the previous 12 months, which began with the onset of the pandemic. The state’s attrition rate prior to the pandemic had declined from 9% in 2015-16 to about 7.5% in 2018-19 and 2019-20.
NC DPI Press Release| Feb. 2, 2023: Sponsors Needed to Help Provide N.C. Summer Meals- To learn more about N.C. Summer Nutrition Programs and how your organization may become involved in providing summer meals to children in your community, please visit the NCDPI, Summer Nutrition Programwebsiteor contact the NCDPI, Summer Nutrition Program team.
State Superintendent's Student Advisory Council Now Accepting Applications
High school juniors are invited to apply to serve as a Student Advisor on Superintendent Catherine Truitt's Student Advisory Council. If you are interested in state education issues, advocating on behalf of your fellow peers, and serving as an advisor to decision-makers in K-12 education, this opportunity is for you!
Advisory members meet monthly and serve a two-year term that concludes at the end of senior year of high school. At the conclusion of each year, advisors will present a proposal to address an evolving state education issue to the Superintendent among other state leaders.
The deadline to apply is February 7. Learn more and apply here.
Bill Summary - OVERVIEW: House Bill 26 would do the following:
Revise the governance structure and admissions standards for the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT)
Require the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) to contract with Gooru Inc., to provide software that would help evaluate and improve student learning and performance in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Require DPI to purchase and share attainment data from the National Student Clearinghouse
Require the Superintendent of Public Instruction and DPI to study and recommend changes to the system for evaluating schools
Establish a Parents' Bill of Rights enumerating certain rights of parents related to the education, health, privacy, and safety of their child.
Require public school units to provide parents with information related to parental involvement in schools, legal rights for their child's education, and guides for student achievement.
Require public school units to provide notifications on student physical and mental health, require age-appropriate instruction on certain topics in kindergarten – 4th grade, and create remedies for parents to address concerns over implementation of these requirements.
Require health care practitioners to obtain written consent from the parent of a minor child before providing treatment.
North Carolina teachers with higher effectiveness ratings prior to the disruptions of the 2020-21 COVID-19 school year helped mitigate learning loss as students and teachers managed remote instruction, hybrid learning and other responses to the pandemic, a new analysis of student outcomes shows.
A whitepaper report released today by the Department of Public Instruction’s Office of Learning Recovery and Acceleration (OLR) found that students scored better on the state’s End-of-Grade and End-of-Course exams during the 2020-21 school year if their teachers had in past years shown strong student outcomes.
Among the report’s findings on teacher effectiveness are these:
During the 2020-21 school year, on average, there was less negative impact observed among students linked to teachers who were identified as effective prior to the pandemic.
Results show negative impacts were mitigated for students whose teachers were identified as meeting or exceeding expected growth across all tested subjects and especially for reading in grade 4, math in grades 5 and 6, Math 3 in high school and science grade 5.
Pre-pandemic teaching effectiveness did not appear to mitigate negative impacts in reading in grades 7 or 8.
Read the blog post here. | Read the full report here.
"The Office of Learning Recovery and Acceleration (OLR) studies COVID-recovery initiatives within North Carolina’s public schools. OLR has partnered with the EVAAS team at SAS to measure the pandemic’s overall effect on academic progress, based on the results of state standardized tests, by comparing individual students to their own expected performance rather than the average performance of pre-pandemic cohorts. This analysis is one of the most comprehensive of its kind and should inform education policy throughout the state. See preliminary report released in March 2022 and full technical report released in December 2022."
Applications are officially OPEN for the Golden LEAF Scholarship.
Each year, the Golden LEAF Foundation awards 215 scholarships to high school seniors and community college transfer students who reside in a qualifying rural and economically distressed North Carolina county and are planning to enroll full-time in a participating public or private college or university located in North Carolina.
High school seniors entering college as freshmen are eligible for scholarships up to $14,000 ($3,500 a year for up to four years). Community college transfer students are eligible for $3,500 annually for up to 3 years.
“Fair and competitive” pay and benefits for educators, including a 24.5% pay increase to make pay similar to other fields that require a Bachelor’s degree
Grow and diversify the incoming teacher pipeline and retain the teachers here
“Prepare students for the world they live in.” That includes teaching students soft skills, like communication and empathy, and ensuring curriculum covers history, perspectives and content across diverse backgrounds
Implement the remedial plan in the Leandro lawsuit
myFutureNC invites you to join virtually for The State of Educational Attainment in North Carolina on Monday, February 6th at 3:00 pm ET. They will share the top findings from North Carolina's State of Educational Attainment Report and proposed solutions to address the state of emergency around workforce talent and the education pipeline in NC. They will highlight success stories and forecast needs and clear solutions to help achieve the state's educational attainment goal of 2 million degrees or industry-valued credentials by 2030 among North Carolinians ages 25-44. Please click here to RSVP and register for the live stream option.
