The recurring theme in the news today is school budget cuts and reversions. Mitchell County will be closing two elementary schools because enrollment is down to about enough students to fill a single classroom at one, and there isn’t enough money to justify keeping either school open.
The chairman of the Buncombe County School Board, Bob Rhinehart, observed:
There’s a lot of systems that are going to be laying off a lot of staff next school year.”
To try to fix the problem, Phil Berger et al. are advocating for new legislation that would, among other things, require students to read at grade level before being promoted, and eliminate teacher tenure.
