[Durham INC] Fwd: Digest for durham-allies-for-responsive-education at googlegroups.com - 5 Messages in 3 Topics

Mon Jul 22 11:40:23 EDT 2013

See below. I dont necessarily disagree w stripping tenure, but if we want our kids to get a good, heterogeneus, public education, we are going to need to pay our teachers accordingly. This bill tells teachers they ought to find another job that actually pays them for their intelligence and skills, and it tells kids they dont want to grow up to be teachers (not if they want to earn enough money to raise a family anyway). Who will remain to teach our kids the skills and drive THEY need to have successful, productive lives? A computer with an Internet connection? Scary.

Melissa Rooney

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> *Subject:* Emergency DPB: Tenure Stripped from All Teachers, Vouchers
> Enacted, & No Raise Under Budget Deal
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> *Tenure Stripped from All Teachers, Vouchers Enacted, & No Raise
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> * **Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) and Speaker Thom
> Tillis (R-Mecklenburg) put the final touches on a General Assembly budget
> this past weekend, including the trading of of vouchers (Tillis' demand)
> for stripping teacher tenure (Berger's demand). The bill will be voted on
> Tuesday and Wednesday by both chambers and it cannot be amended once it is
> on the chamber floors. NCAE is calling for a NO vote on the budget by
> legislators. More news to come from NCAE President Rodney Ellis with full
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> NCAE needs you to call the NC House all day Monday at
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> and ask both your Senator and House member to vote NO on the budget.
> Start the calls at 9 am and call multiple times and spread the word to your
> colleagues to do the same.
> NCAE reminds you to be respectful and professional. Also remember that
> this was a back room deal between the General Assembly leaders and many
> Republican legislators are dismayed by this turn of events, especially in
> the NC House where a bipartisan tenure reform bill passed with only one
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> Remind your legislators that the Senate tenure plan has never gotten a
> floor debate in either chamber. The Senate tenure plan has never been
> vetted in a House committee.
> Vouchers have never been vetted by a Senate committee. This is not only
> bad policy, it's bad process.
> Here are the budget documents if you care to review. NCAE is working on an
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> - New - Bill Text - Proposed Conference Committee Substitute for Senate
> Bill 402, Appropriations Act of
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>  GOP leaders agree on $20.6 billion NC budget
> Natalie Beyer <natalie.beyer at gmail.com> Jul 21 10:17PM -0400  
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> Leaders in the North Carolina House and Senate announced they have reached
> agreement on a $20.6 billion budget that will end teacher tenure and allow
> taxpayer money to be spent for private school tuition.
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> RALEIGH -- Leaders in the North Carolina House and Senate announced they
> have reached agreement on a $20.6 billion budget that will end teacher
> tenure and allow taxpayer money to be spent for private school tuition.
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> Highlights of the budget negotiated by the Republican majority were issued
> in a news release. The actual appropriations bill was not expected to be
> made available to the public until late Sunday night.
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> Both chambers have previously passed their own spending plans, but
> Republican leaders wrangled for weeks to come to a consensus even as the
> July 1 start of the 2013-2014 fiscal year came and went.
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> The budget increases overall state spending by 2.5 percent while
> instituting tax cuts for corporations and individuals. The plan scraps the
> longstanding teacher tenure system in favor of employing educators on
> contracts that are renewed based on performance reviews. The budget would
> also allow families that meet income guidelines to get state money to pay
> private school tuition starting in 2014.
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> "Republicans in the General Assembly have produced a state budget that
> reduces taxes and right-sizes state government," said House Speaker Thom
> Tillis (R-Mecklenburg), according to the release. "This budget is another
> crucial step in putting North Carolina's fiscal house in order."
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> State spending on Medicaid is increased by $1.5 billion to cover what
> Republicans term as cost overruns. A special provision would allow the
> administration of GOP Gov. Pat McCrory to develop a Medicaid reform plan in
> the coming months.
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> The budget also supports McCrory's plan for overhauling the North Carolina
> Highway Trust Fund, which prioritizes and pays for transportation
> infrastructure projects over the next 10 years.
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> The plan restores funding that had been previously cut for 69 positions
> within the State Highway Patrol, as well as another 22 magistrates and 175
> probation and parole officers.
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> The budget meets the state's obligation to fund the state retirement system
> and state health plan, while providing state employees with 5 additional
> days of leave. The release makes no mention of any raise for state
> employees, whose salaries have remained largely stagnant for years.
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> The release also said living victims of a state-sponsored eugenics program
> that ended in the 1970s will receive a one-time compensation payment, but
> it did not say how much that payment will be.
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> North Carolina forcibly sterilized about 7,600 people who the state deemed
> feeble-minded or otherwise undesirable between 1929 and 1974. Some of the
> victims were as young as 10 and chosen because they were promiscuous or did
> not get along with their schoolmates.
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> While many states had similar eugenics programs, most of them were
> abandoned after the practice was associated with the Nazis after World War
> II. But North Carolina actually expanded its program after the war.
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> A group set up to help North Carolina victims estimated up to 1,800 were
> still living last year, though it had only verified 146 of them.
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> The Legislature has debated whether to compensate eugenics victims for
> years, but the proposal didn't gain much traction until 2012. A bill to pay
> each victim $50,000 passed the House with the support of then-Democratic
> Gov. Beverly Perdue and Speaker Tillis, but stalled in the Senate.
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> The budget also eliminates state funding for the nonprofit Rural Economic
> Development Center, which was stung by a negative audit last week,
> triggering the resignation of its long-time president. In its place, the
> legislature is creating a new division within the N.C. Department of
> Commerce to focus on improving services to the state's rural counties.
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> "Together, members of the House and Senate have carefully crafted a plan
> that smartly invests in key priorities like education and public safety
> while fulfilling our shared commitment to fiscal responsibility and
> accountability in state government," said Senate leader Phil Berger
> (R-Rockingham), according to the release.
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> Jean-Christian Rostagni <clic at jean-christian.net> Jul 21 11:44PM -0400  
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> Those who do not like this budget are invited to go to Moral Mondays
> tomorrow, buses leave from the farmers market at 4:00 for those who¹d rather
> not drive.
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> I hope to see Kristy Moore there as I have some pretty good ideas recently
> imported from Massachusets about increasing membership through action
> circumventing the unfathomable lack of right to strike. Amazingly, in MA
> they could strike, but they don¹t even have to. Now that¹s power! Teachers
> in this State need unions, but it has to be one with teeth and the
> willingness to show them.
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> We¹d rather do it peacefully
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>  [New post] Why Teacher Tenure Matters
> Page McCullough <page.mc at frontier.com> Jul 21 10:56PM -0400  
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