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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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Another legislating judge slapped down by Lady Justice
1 posted on 11/30/2021 8:05:51 PM PST by blueplum
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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.

Now that, sir, is drooling lunacy.

2 posted on 11/30/2021 8:08:03 PM PST by SamuraiScot
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legislatures are in charge of the purse strings, not individual judges with personal agendas

because they are at least supposed to be elected reps of the people who finance this stuff


3 posted on 11/30/2021 8:11:14 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: blueplum

This nonsense has been mandated by other judges in other states. Improved nothing, solved nothing.


4 posted on 11/30/2021 8:15:52 PM PST by Enterprise
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Improved nothing, solved nothing.

Worse, there's an inverse relationship between school spending and student performance. Most additional school spending goes toward a LOT more top-heavy administration which burdens teachers with useless crap, micromanagement, and staggering reporting requirements, none of which helps students. It goes toward bringing in the latest liberal education fads, none of which work.

5 posted on 11/30/2021 8:35:20 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“…in any great disaster, there's a Harvard man in the middle of it.” ~ Thomas Sowell)
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“Worse, there’s an inverse relationship between school spending and student performance. “

One of the most highly educated and successful businesspeople I have known was a dirt poor farmer’s child educated in a one room schoolhouse in rural NC. There was one teacher who taught all grades. He graduated from that school with an ability to write, a love for books, superior math skills, and a love for his country’s history and government. He continued his education throughout his life reading thousands of books on many subjects. He could down with an Ivy League educated intellectual and discuss intelligently almost any subject. He started a business on a shoestring that provided a middle class lifestyle for his family and a comfortable retirement for he and his wife. Clearly he left that one room schoolhouse with a better education than 99% of the high school graduates of today and probably a high percentage of today’s college graduates.

An outstanding teacher can achieve outstanding results with almost no resources. A student with an inquiring mind, supported with good teaching as well as highly supportive and demanding parents can be an exceptional scholar. Substitute teaching fundamental skills necessary for life (reading writing , arithmetic, and objective history) with modern social justice indoctrination, and no parent involvement, and you get the product of 21st century American primary and secondary schools.

The amount of money spent matters little. The one room school house of 1910 with drafty windows, no air conditioning in the summer, and a single wood fired stove to provide heat in the winter provided as good an environment for learning as a 21st century classroom with projection screens, connections to the internet, and laptops for every child.

Education schools spend no time examining the simple techniques that obtained outstanding achievement in the past. The students they turn out are ignorant propagandists. Why should we expect the ignorant to inspire brilliance and achievement in our children?


6 posted on 11/30/2021 8:57:45 PM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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Now impeach this totalitarian judge.


7 posted on 11/30/2021 8:59:33 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Plugs the Pedo - The Shart Heard 'Round The World)
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They want to push it to a point that simply possessing a rope is intent to lynch.


8 posted on 11/30/2021 9:34:13 PM PST by Rebelbase ( State Dept. Havana Syndrome victims: Guinea pigs of 5G/graphene oxide vax experiments?)
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To: blueplum

Oops, #8 posted on wrong thread.


9 posted on 11/30/2021 9:35:15 PM PST by Rebelbase ( State Dept. Havana Syndrome victims: Guinea pigs of 5G/graphene oxide vax experiments?)
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Wow. Wasn’t it around the 90’s that this was a little fad of judges ordering public entities to spend money? Seems to have fallen out of fashion. So retro!


10 posted on 11/30/2021 9:35:39 PM PST by j.havenfarm (20 years on Free Republic, 12/10/20! More than 3700 replies and still not shutting up!)
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My sister has been teaching math to junior high and high school kids for 45 years, the past ten in an inner city Baltimore magnet school that is almost all black. She ignores all the crap dumped on her by the administration and the annual math fads that make things worse. She sticks to the basics she learned almost 50 years ago and really gets results.


11 posted on 11/30/2021 9:46:51 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“…in any great disaster, there's a Harvard man in the middle of it.” ~ Thomas Sowell)
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Awesome!


12 posted on 12/01/2021 12:41:40 AM PST by ConjunctionJunction (Vim vi repellere licet)
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To: blueplum

The leftist NC Supreme Court will overturn that!


13 posted on 12/01/2021 2:30:57 AM PST by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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North Carolina is on the verge of going over the liberal precipice.


14 posted on 12/01/2021 4:40:56 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: Soul of the South

“One of the most highly educated and successful businesspeople I have known ...

Oh so true. Thanks for the story.


15 posted on 12/01/2021 4:43:53 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: Soul of the South

My aunt taught at a one-room schoolhouse in the’20s and ‘30s. Many of her text books are still on the shelves in the family homestead.

Hubby is a physicist, and he was astounded to see the math (arithmetic) books for elementary grades; they are HARD — beyond what seniors learn now.


16 posted on 12/01/2021 4:50:10 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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Wanna see panic: Stick a McGuffey Reader in front of a publik skrewl student.


17 posted on 12/01/2021 4:53:23 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Soul of the South

Tell them what you are going to teach them.
Actually teach them.
Tell them what you’ve taught them.


18 posted on 12/01/2021 5:04:50 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Rebelbase

No worry; it fits just about any thread these days!


19 posted on 12/01/2021 5:05:36 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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William Holmes McGuffey (1800-1873) was a "born" educator. Beginning by teaching his younger brothers and sisters, William McGuffey accepted his first teaching position at 13 in a one-room school with 48 students.
20 posted on 12/01/2021 5:09:34 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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