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North Carolina court stops order to spend $1.7B on education
AP ^ | 30 November 2021 | GARY D. ROBERTSON

Posted on 11/30/2021 8:05:51 PM PST by blueplum

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court on Tuesday blocked enforcement of parts of a trial judge’s recent order that demanded $1.75 billion in state taxpayer funds be spent — without express legislative approval — to address public education inequities.

The majority on a three-judge panel sided with a request by State Controller Linda Combs that it prevent Superior Court Judge David Lee’s order from being enforced. It agreed Lee crossed the line by appropriating money — a job the majority said rests solely with the General Assembly.

Combs leads one of three state offices that Lee directed to transfer funds from state coffers to education and health agencies ....

...Appeals court Judges Chris Dillon and Jefferson Griffin declared Tuesday that Lee erred by stating a portion of the constitution addressing the right to education amounted to “an ongoing constitutional appropriation of funds.”....

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: chrisdillon; constitution; davidlee; garydrobertson; generalassembly; jeffersongriffin; legislatingjudges; lindacombs; northcarolina; statepowers
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To: mewzilla
More than 120 million copies of McGuffey Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960,[1] placing its sales in a category with the Bible and Webster's Dictionary.[2]
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Holmes_McGuffey

21 posted on 12/01/2021 5:17:43 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I live in a county with two high schools along with the feeder middle and elementary schools. They also have a large office building full of administrators. I feel anger as I pass it each day with its large parking lot full of shiny cars.

I too subscribe to the thought that the more non-teaching employees the poorer the education level. Let the teachers teach. Get out of their way!


22 posted on 12/01/2021 5:19:45 AM PST by elpadre ( ying them.)
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To: Elsie

Home schoolers ought to look at those if they haven’t. They’re a great resource.

BTW, that money likely wasn’t for students’ benefit. I’m thinking the teachers’ pension fund/s.


23 posted on 12/01/2021 5:30:17 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Soul of the South

Nice post. Was the one room school house circa 1910 as I would guess from your post? I’ve heard from old timers that things in general started to go down hill after WW I.

Ivy League Intellectuals, while hard to impress, are not necessarily that impressive when it comes to intellectual breadth, and they are, so far as I can tell, getting worse in this way. (I speak as the product of a small rural Oregon grade school, and to a lesser but still important extent, Cornell University).


24 posted on 12/01/2021 6:58:42 AM PST by Hieronymus
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To: elpadre

Teachers all across the country are hugely demoralized. These vast top heavy administrations all need something to do and frequently visit classrooms to make sure teachers are doing the latest fad.

Teachers are leaving the profession in droves. My sister tells me every week how many have quit at her school starting shortly after the new school year started. Contracts are usually late getting g sent to teachers and they get signed in August or September. Then a couple months later the teacher says “I can’t take this sh!t any longer…I QUIT!”

Normally you’d expect teachers to switch to another school, but many, if not most, are leaving teaching altogether. And it is frequently the new teachers who have been working less than five years who leave the profession. Imagine all the time and schooling you have invested only to flush that all career development away after being in the real world only a couple years! It is that bad.

The worst thing I’d the huge top heavy administrations blame all these problems on the teachers themselves.


25 posted on 12/01/2021 7:53:47 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“…in any great disaster, there's a Harvard man in the middle of it.” ~ Thomas Sowell)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The majority on a three-judge panel sided with a request by State Controller Linda Combs that it prevent Superior Court Judge David Lee’s order from being enforced... Appeals court Judges Chris Dillon and Jefferson Griffin declared Tuesday that Lee erred by stating a portion of the constitution addressing the right to education amounted to “an ongoing constitutional appropriation of funds.”...
Lee is unfit for the bench, so is the nimrod on the panel who agreed with Lee.

26 posted on 12/01/2021 10:05:07 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“... hugely demoralized....”

Many, many are demoralized and leaving because of undisciplined students, administrations failing to back up teachers, same thing for parents who put down a teacher rather than taking a switch to their kid.


27 posted on 12/01/2021 12:24:33 PM PST by elpadre ( ying them.)
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To: elpadre

Plus the huge increase of violence towards teachers by students. And you wouldn’t believe the foul language hurled at teachers every day. My sister actually has some of the good kids come to her defense and they tell off the miscreants.

The administrations totally fail to back up the teachers. The kids are always right and they know how to play that game with deadly ease and precision. The stories my sister tells about lying kids intentionally getting teachers they don’t like in trouble are unbelievably shocking. The administrations will side with the kids and get rid of the teacher and never discipline the kids.

Education is a major cesspool these days (and the past decades).


28 posted on 12/01/2021 12:48:20 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“…in any great disaster, there's a Harvard man in the middle of it.” ~ Thomas Sowell)
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To: elpadre
We can blame Dr. spock for the latter - not Mr. Spock.
29 posted on 12/01/2021 4:06:29 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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