By the time you read this Wednesday Morning, the North Carolina Legislature may have already overridden the veto of Perdue’s budget veto. Rumors are that a 12:01am session Wednesday morning will attempt to override her veto of the budget which included heavy cuts to North Carolina schools. Democratic Local Representative James Crawford Jr. is one of the ‘party of 5’ democratic legislators expected to vote with republicans for the override. The other four are William Brisson, Dewey Hill, Bill Owens, and Timothy Spear.
Added – The veto override was granted with a 73-46 vote, and will move to the state senate for a vote today.
Tuesday’s session was interrupted 4 times by protestors against a fracking bill, with multiple bills currently in legistation that would allow fracking in North Carolina. Fracking is the process of drilling into rock and pumping it full of water and chemicals in an attempt to scare out natural oil and gas deposits. Opponents say the chemicals used are terribly damaging and have no protection against entering into the public water supply.
Welcome to Wednesday’s Open Line
Come election time, remember to vote them out.
I find it tragic that education is so under valued in this state. I happily pay the extra penny sales tax and wonder why our representatives don’t happily do the same. There’s a lot on the line with the education of our youth and reducing the funding is just this side of criminal.
Education comes in many forms. We need to keep pushing forward, but we need to seriously look at how we allocate our resources and the return that it brings. Education for years has continued to consume more and more and yet we are continually falling behind the world in standard testing.
You have to ask why? Is it for lack of money and resources? Is it for lack of parental involvement? Is it from poor leadership from educators and administration? Throwing money at a problem is only part of the equation, but so often it’s the only one that continues to draw the negative publicity. You can’t continue to reward negative behavior and expect anything different. When we do better we get more. Entitlements across the board have very little accountability.
The state hasn’t paid incentives promised to teachers who have earned them through high test scores for two years running. I think it’s safe to say that positive behavior isn’t being rewarded, much less negative behavior.
Yeahright, If you don’t think education is important then maybe you should be voted out next year also.
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I understand your frustration. Often times those who really do a great job get overshadowed by those who don’t. Please understand my post wasn’t to blast the job that teachers are doing, but simply to bring truth to light. A lot of the problems we face are not singular, but multifaceted and so often we only focus on one area.
I do believe you would agree we still fall behind other countries in performance testing. If we want to continue to see America grow, we have to continue to set the bar higher and expect more from students,parents, teachers, administration and policy makers.
Keep up the good work!