This Letter From 19 NC Rural Superintendents To Raleigh About Expanding Vouchers Must Be Read.They’ve Had 12 Years To “Fix” Public Education In NC & They Never Listened To Teachers.Even The NC State Board Is Against Voucher Expansion.Private Schools In NC “Have More Vouchers Than Students?” Apparently, Many Do.Local Supplements For Teachers Mean More Than You May Think (& Raleigh Knows That).
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He never spoke against the fact the DPI’s budget has been cut by 20% in the next two-year budget and he talked of DPI’s role in supporting local districts.He is rubber-stamping “more of the same” by being a stooge for the GOP powers in the General Assembly.He offered any plan to help offer “opportunity” to every student.Every teacher on the high school level has taught students who are older than the traditional student of that grade.He has not fought for helping do something about the poverty level in many places when he could be a more vocal advocate for poorer students.Mark Johnson has shown that two years into an unfinished term in office does not lay a good foundation for being the head of DPI.The status quo has been actually reinforced.After two years teaching, Johnson attended law school at UNC-Chapel Hill.Īnd in the 210 days that he has been in office (the length of a contract that North Carolina teachers have on a yearly basis – the equivalent of a school year for teachers) it is interesting to see what has been done.Johnson is proud of the work the Forsyth district has done to jump-start one of the state’s lowest-performing schools, Cook Elementary, giving it some of the flexibility afforded charter schools in hiring, pay and setting the school calendar.Later, Johnson concluded through his work on the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school board that local districts need more support from DPI for their ideas,.He also became convinced that “more of the same” won’t improve public education in the state, he said.“Through my experiences, I realized that opportunity is not available to every student in this country, and it needs to be.”.In Johnson’s classes, he had students older than the typical freshmen they had been held back.Some students didn’t know whether they would eat at night. He taught earth science to ninth-graders in a school where many students lived in poverty and struggled with classwork.