Posted on 05/24/2023 4:54:00 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC) has not been handling well the priorities of the Republican-controlled legislature. Last week, the legislature overrode his veto on a 12-week abortion ban, to which he reacted with a slew of angry tweets and media appearances. He's taken even more of an extreme stance in response to the legislature on school choice, though, and on Monday afternoon declared a state of emergency for public schools during a special address.
The governor got right to it, as he proclaimed "it’s time to declare a State of Emergency for public education in North Carolina." He even warned "it's no less important" than "a hurricane or the pandemic" despite there being no Executive order involved. Speaking of the pandemic, Cooper had kept North Carolina under a state of emergency for over 880 days because of COVID, having just ended it last August.
Cooper's remarks were brief but extreme, as he went on to explain the move. "It’s clear that the Republican legislature is aiming to choke the life out of public education. I’m declaring this state of emergency because you need to know what’s happening," he claimed, going on to attempt to scare North Carolinians into joining his cause. "If you care about public schools in North Carolina, it’s time to take immediate action and tell them to stop the damage that will set back our schools for a generation."
His remarks involved to fearmongering talking points, such as how private schools will be "unaccountable to the public," and that public school superintendents are warning "they’ll likely have to cut schools to the bone--eliminate early college, AP and gifted courses, art, music, sports--if the..."
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How can they continue to subsidize Democrat candidates with union dues if they don't control it all?
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public schools should be like public housing ...
a minimum last resort for those in REAL need.
North Carolina has an emergency - its governor has gone insane.
Defund public schools.
We have to burn the village to save it.
“private schools will be “unaccountable to the public,”
Boy does this communist idiot have this backwards.
“they’ll likely have to cut schools to the bone—eliminate early college, AP and gifted courses, art, music, sports—if the.”
Well, that train is never late.
Does NC have an election recall process? An impeachment process?
desperation!
Most constitutions contain some clause giving the administrative head broad powers in an emergency. That’s because it takes time for the legislative branches to gather and respond. In a true emergency the situation is too time sensitive to permit the legislature to lead and effective response. The key is that an emergency should be time sensitive. A hurricane wipes out the power grid and fuel needs to be delivered so hospitals and critical infrastructure can still function. Lives are at stake. The fact that the legislature wants to do something, anything, is not an emergency. It’s not time sensitive and lives are NOT at stake. The powers of the executive must be limited. Those who wrote the constitutions had no idea that anything the executive didn’t like could be an emergency.
Insane is not impeaching the prick for tyranny.
“the State Board of Education will be replaced by political hacks who can dictate what is taught— and not taught—in our public schools”
I... don’t see a difference there.
The government schools had a wonderful gravy train going. For each child recorded as present in the classroom, the school got paid X amount of federal/state cash. The unions lived large.
But parents started taking their kids out. Suddenly the pay-per-head system isn’t enough to keep the fat people fed.
Understand that this is THE argument form the global as well as national Left. Declare "states of emergency" and rule by edict. Simple, basic and immoral totalitarianism. Infecting the Democrat Party today.
More lawfare from democrats in this ongoing CWII.
Does the NC constitution give the governor the power to override the legislature’s override of the governor’s veto?
Where do these reflections in two mirrors end?
I am not against your fix, I have another take on how to message the issue of school choice.
In addition to selling school choice as a way to defund Teachers Unions, I would sell it as a Civil Rights issue, giving Black and Brown Americans access to the highest quality education in a private school of your choice.
I would point to how black Americans are consistently stuck in the worst performing schools and have no alternatives available to them, while Democrats like this Governor are attempting to lock your kids in a underperforming school system.
Democrats are pros at playing identity politics, nothing like a dose of their own medicine being served.
Don’t just walk away, fight.
As to the Guv’na, impeach his butt. Calling political opposition an emergency is overreach. Start an impeachment and let’s hear the arguments.
It is an emergency any time a Lefty does not get his/her/its way.
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