Compensation

Rebutting teacher pay myths

Andrew Biggs and Jason Richwine write for National Affairs about common myths surrounding public school teacher pay. One of the most common beliefs about American education is that teaching is…

Newsflash! Taxpayers Pay for State Employee and Teacher Benefits

John Locke Foundation’s Joe Coletti explains where funding for the State Health Plan comes from: An angry teacher on Facebook wondered why those in charge of the State Health Plan…

Appeals Court rules against forced sterilization victims in five eugenics cases

The N.C. Court of Appeals has affirmed earlier rulings against five people seeking compensation from the state because of forced sterilization. Each case was tied to the state eugenics program…

Split N.C. Court of Appeals panel punts eugenics cases to three-judge Superior Court panel

A split 2-1 panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has ruled this morning that a challenge of the constitutionality of North Carolina’s eugenics compensation program should head to a…

N.C. Appeals Court rules no compensation for posthumous pardons of innocence in Wilmington 10 case

There will be no state government compensation to the estates of four dead members of the so-called “Wilmington 10.” A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has…

Tax Me More

The Mountain Xpress has published a list of nonprofits seeking local tax dollars. I can hardly blame them in light of the extra work I’ve done for good people in…

Tillis Press Release on Eugenics Payments

All Teachers got a Pay Increase

Most teachers in North Carolina have received their new 2014-15 salary schedule.  Each teacher in North Carolina will receive a pay increase. Legislation says that a teacher is to receive…

It’s Called Pension Spiking, And It’s Costly

Carolina Journal’s Dan Way reports on the legislature’s look into reforming what’s called pension spiking. Dan talked with Reps. Stephen Ross and Jeff Collins. One common method to spike a pension…

Leef asks Forbes readers to consider the way government workers are compensated

George Leef’s latest Forbes column examines changes in the way government workers have been compensated. Does it matter how we compensate government workers? Not just how much, but how? After…

Re: Guilford County school board raise

Guilford County Board of Education votes 5-4 to raise its salary by $775 per month. Voting for the raise were board members Jeff Belton, Carlvena Foster, Deena Hayes-Greene, Ed Price…

State’s Office Culture is more important than Salary Increases

Roy Cooper, NC’s attorney general, and Beth Wood, NC’s state auditor, have both been reported saying that the state is losing employees to the private sector due to higher salaries. …