RALEIGH (June 26, 2025) – The word of the year for 2025 is ‘uncertainty.’ So leaders of the state House think it’s a good idea to slow down state tax cuts scheduled for the next two years. “For the House it’s pretty simple,” state Rep. Donny Lambeth, R-Forsyth, Senior Chair of the House Appropriations Committee,… READ MORE
Billboard campaign backs raises for teachers
By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works WINSTON-SALEM (June 26, 2025) – North Carolina drivers may spot billboards advocating for better teacher pay out on the roads this summer as part of Public Ed Works’ latest campaign. About a dozen billboards are located along Interstate 40 and Interstate 85, concentrated in highly traveled areas like Raleigh… READ MORE
House takes the lead on teacher pay
RALEIGH (June 19, 2025) – Rep. Donny Lambeth, R-Forsyth, is the senior chair of the state House committee that will help decide how to spend more than $65 billion1 over the next two years. Before he came to Raleigh, though, Lambeth served as Chair of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school board from 1994-2012 and cites education… READ MORE
Our Opinion: Killing them slowly: GOP lawmakers don’t care about public schools. Do you?
Editor’s Note: The following editorial appeared Sunday, June 15 in the Greensboro News & Record and the Winston-Salem Journal. It is reprinted here with permission. In the 1993 film “The Fugitive,” which you may have seen one of the hundred million times it has aired on cable TV, the title character, played by Harrison Ford, is cornered on the… READ MORE
Books on Break helps kids embrace summer reading
By Amy Cockerham Public Ed Works DURHAM (June 24, 2025) – As the school year rolled to a close, kids’ faces lit up with excitement as they carefully chose 10 new books to take home with them for the summer. It’s all a part of Durham nonprofit Book Harvest’s Books on Break program, which started… READ MORE
UNC-CH Research: $3B impact
CHAPEL HILL (June 13, 2025) – As Trump administration officials take aim at university research across the country, they need to recall that old line about the goose that laid the golden egg. UNC-Chapel Hill receives $1.55 billion a year in research grants. That in turn generates $3 billion in economic impact in the state,… READ MORE
Can UNC stand $150M hit to overhead?
CHAPEL HILL (June 13, 2025) – There’s been controversy this spring over the Trump administration’s proposal to cut the “overhead receipts” universities receive on federal research grants. Dr. Penny Gordon-Larsen, Vice Chancellor for Research at UNC-Chapel Hill, describes very clearly in the accompanying video what overhead receipts are, what such a reduction would cost the… READ MORE
Public Schools First: Most vouchers going to students already in private school
By Heather Koons Public Schools First NC RALEIGH (June 13, 2025) – On June 4, staff at the Department of Public Instruction presented their report on Opportunity Scholarship voucher use for 2024-25 to the State Board of Education. According to data they shared from the North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority (administrators of the Opportunity Scholarship… READ MORE
John Hood: Put your tax cards on the table
RALEIGH (June 13, 2025) — The N.C. House and Senate have enacted very different versions of a 2025-27 state budget, even though two plans would authorize virtually the same amount of spending. The differences are so vast, in fact, that some insiders predict no comprehensive budget will pass this session. And the fundamental difference involves… READ MORE
Join Public Schools First NC and Public Ed Works this summer!
https://www.publicedworks.org/2025/06/ Summer is almost here and school is out, but let’s not forget to celebrate the great work of our public schools, our educators, students, and supportive families! RALEIGH (June 4, 2025) – In NC, the vast majority of our K-12 students are enrolled in public schools. Throughout our state, there are about 2,700 public… READ MORE
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