State Board of Education member James E. Ford discusses teacher attrition, efforts to retain the state’s best educators while attracting more teachers of color to the profession.
More than 7,000 North Carolina teachers left the profession last year, according to the state’s newest annual teacher turnover report. While legislative leaders say that’s an improvement over recent years, veteran educators remain concerned. State Board of Education member James E. Ford discusses teacher attrition, efforts to retain the state’s best educators while attracting more teachers of color to the profession.
Learn more about Ford’s work at the Center for Racial Equity in Education.
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Veteran journalists Lisa Sorg and David Menconi discuss the State of Newspaper Journalism
Veteran journalists Lisa Sorg and David Menconi will discuss the State of Newspaper Journalism at this year’s NC Book Festival. Sorg and Menconi were kind enough to give us a preview of their discussion with Steven Petrow. Learn more about the February 22nd event at HQ (310 S Harrington St.) in downtown Raleigh.
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Dr. Michael Bitzer, chair of the political science department at Catawba College, discusses America’s political divide
Dr. Michael Bitzer, chair of the political science department at Catawba College, discusses the State of the Union, the impeachment trial of President Trump and the outcome of the Democratic presidential caucus in Iowa.
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Ian Vandewalker of the Brennan Center for Justice discusses the 10-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United ruling
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NC Housing Coalition director Samuel Gunter on the disinvestment in public housing and the impact of spiraling housing costs
NC Housing Coalition director Samuel Gunter on the disinvestment in public housing, the latest on McDougald Terrace and the impact of spiraling housing costs on North Carolina families.
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NC Community College System President Peter Hans discusses myFuture NC and the state of higher education
NC Community College System President Peter Hans discusses the effort to dramatically increase the number of North Carolinians who hold post-secondary degrees or credentials. Click here to learn more about the You Hire Education campaign.
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David Rice, Executive Director of Higher Ed Works, discusses the recent trials and tribulations (as well as some recent successes) of the UNC system
Read more about Higher Ed Works and their special series on university governance.
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Attorney Kym Hunter of the Southern Environmental Law Center discusses efforts by the Trump administration to gut a 50-year-old landmark environmental rule known as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
Learn more from SELC about how attacks on NEPA could strip critical oversight.
Comments on the Trump Administration’s changes to NEPA should be submitted on or before March 10, 2020. Go to https://www.regulations.gov/ and follow the online instructions for submitting comments to Docket ID No. CEQ-2019-0003
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Allan Freyer of the NC Justice Center’s Workers’ Rights Project discusses a new report that details the failure of the NC Department of Labor to enforce worker safety laws
Read the full NC Justice Center report: Too lax, too often.
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House Minority Leader Darren Jackson on the political divide that has prevented state lawmakers from finding common ground on teacher pay and Medicaid expansion.
House Minority Leader Darren Jackson on the political divide that has prevented state lawmakers from finding common ground on teacher pay and Medicaid expansion.
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Jeff Dillman of the Fair Housing Project at Legal Aid discusses the State of Fair Housing in North Carolina
Jeff Dillman of the Fair Housing Project at Legal Aid discusses the State of Fair Housing in North Carolina. Read the latest report.
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WRAL-TV producer Clay Johnson on the upcoming documentary “Out of the Darkness” that examines a startling rise in the suicide rate among NC teens
WRAL-TV producer Clay Johnson on the upcoming documentary “Out of the Darkness” that examines a startling rise in the suicide rate among NC teens. “Out of the Darkness” debuts on Jan. 23, 2020. Learn more here.
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