Pretty gross, but unfortunately that sums up the House’s 2010-11 budget.
Locker Room’s Becki Gray has the smelly details, calling Davidson County Rep. Hugh Holliman’s HELP bill a “joke” and a “band aid on a hemorrhaging wound,” adding “(i)f you really want to help businesses, government needs to lower the tax rate so it matters and for everyone.”
She also says there’s too much “whining about firing teachers,” suggesting that jobs cuts start “at the administrative level by cutting assistant principals by 15% to get $13.5M.”
If you wanna see how many assistant principals Guilford County Schools employs and how much they earn, check out the Rhino’s annual list.
Update: The N&R reports “House budget writers also would provide $1 million in funding annually for the joint A&T-UNCG School of Nanoscience. The new program is ramping up and the additional money would help hire faculty and staff.”
Meanwhile, the $451 million bond package —–$100 million of which would go toward a new building for N.C. A&T’s engineering program —- is approved by the Senate finance committee.
Greensboro Partnership CEO Pat Danahy told the committee the new engineering building “will be a major resource that fuels and supports our Triad clusters of opportunity.”
