Education
State budget overview: K-12 Education
View in your browser. Welcome In this week’s CommenTerry, I outline proposed changes to the K-12 portion of the state budget. That’s pretty much it. Bulletin Board Learn. The John…
North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Clarification of “Should the legislature cut the DPI budget?”
Since the publications of my newsletter last week, “Should the legislature cut the DPI budget?,” it has been brought to my attention that some readers may have misinterpreted the graph…
Liberty
Let the Teachers Decide
Let’s pretend for just a second that government money is like other money. That is, there is a set amount of income loosely referred to as a budget. If we…
Liberty
Hollow Center
One bad word is “program.” Another is “center.” Both denote the practice of “Let’s not and say we did.” And so, it is with a note of happiness that the…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Budget Ts
Here is a short summary of the public education budget proposed by Governor McCrory today: Teachers. Governor McCrory’s budget would increase the number of teachers by 1,800 over two years…
Education
State officials pitch $151 million budget boost
View in your browser. Welcome Earlier this month, the NC Department of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education presented their supplemental budget requests for 2012-2013. In this week’s…
Education
New Carolina Journal Online features
David Bass’ latest Carolina Journal Online report focuses on the N.C. Center for the Advancement of Teaching’s plan for coping with state budget cuts. John Hood’s Daily Journal offers an…
Liberty
‘Hip hop’ no more at mountain teacher retreat
Step aside Jay-Z, P Diddy, and 50 Cent. Due to a 50 percent reduction in its operating budget, the N.C. Center for the Advancement of Teaching is canceling many of…
Liberty
It Was the Weight Room
The North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) is expected to lose half its funding. The center boasts the power to revitalize teachers who attend its state-of-the-art programs…
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NCCAT and highly compensated employees
Terry, A worthy question is why the head of NCCAT is the highest paid DPI employee in the state ? and that by a fairly significant chunk.
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Top 10 salaries: NC Department of Public Instruction
Mary McDuffie $175,137.00 NCCAT Executive Director Rebecca Garland $152,000.00 Associate State School Superintendent Peter Asmar $151,519.00 Information Technology Executive Phillip Price $141,782.00 Associate State School Superintendent Julia Kron $138,941.00 NCTA…
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NCCAT’s budget slashed ? are more cuts on the way?
A rural teacher?s retreat in the North Carolina mountains continues to command around $5.5 million in appropriations from the state budget, despite questions about its necessity in lean fiscal times.…