Education Articles and Briefs
WRAL•NEWS - Brian Murphy | June 20, 2024: Budget fight over how to spend NC's $1 billion surplus will stretch past start of fiscal year
The Senate's plan calls for a 5.5% increase in spending over 2023-24. The House calls for a 6.5% increase. Senate leaders have rejected the House's version, saying it spends too much. The North Carolina legislature has reached a stalemate over how much of the state's $1 billion surplus to spend in the fiscal year that starts July 1. And it could be months before a solution is reached.
Berger said the sides have not yet agreed on a top-line number for the budget. The House gave final approval to its plan Thursday. The Senate will vote on its own plan Monday night. Neither chamber will take up the other's proposal.
The Carolina Journal - Brianna Kraemer | June 20, 2024: Senate and House budgets align on major funding but differ on salary increases
The Senate unveiled its proposed budget Thursday morning with the first floor vote on the schedule for next Monday night. The move comes as the House passed its own budget draft in a 68-36 vote during a third reading on Thursday morning.
Under the revised Senate budget, HB 317, education funding would receive an additional $155 million. The Senate draft also fully funds opportunity scholarships with an additional $463 million, similar to the House’s $480 million proposal. The universal school choice program had exhausted funds due to overwhelming demand for education alternatives.
EdNC - Hannah Vinueza McClellan | June 19, 2024: Report looks at the future of ‘Portrait of a Graduate,’ in North Carolina and beyond
In fall 2022, state Superintendent Catherine Truitt unveiled the “Portrait of a Graduate” — highlighting seven skills the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) hoped public schools across North Carolina would incorporate into day-to-day learning.
Those durable skills — adaptability, collaboration, communication, critical thinking, empathy, learner’s mindset, and personal responsibility — were whittled down from a list of more than 50 from a group of 1,200 stakeholders across the state.
Nearly two and a half years later, DPI is still working to ensure that North Carolina students are “well equipped for the broadest range of postsecondary opportunities, be it college, career, or military.” Earlier this week, DPI released the first set of Portrait of a Graduate (POG) K-12 “performance tasks,” a list of activities that combines durable skills with academics.
K-12 Dive - Kara Arundel | June 14, 2024: House education committee advances resolution to repeal Title IX final rule
- A resolution that would nullify the Biden administration’s recent final Title IX rule cleared the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on Thursday over the objections of Democrats who argue the rule strengthens protections for LGBTQ+ students.
- In the same session, the committee advanced seven other education bills on topics ranging from supporting Holocaust education resources and limiting foreign influence in schools to mandating public disclosure of colleges’ investigative processes for Title VI civil rights complaints.
- The legislation now goes to the full House for consideration. But with a busy congressional agenda during this presidential election year, it’s unclear how far the measures will advance.
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