North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper declares State of Emergency – over education.
Check out his 5 minute speech here:
Parents are taking their kids out of public schools and into private schools which is reducing the budgets of the public school system by 20%.
Copper states that North Carolina took 5 billion bucks of Federal aid during the pandemic – which he says, allowed the State to hire more teachers.
Cooper is upset that the Republic controlled legislature offered a 250 dollar pay rise over 2 years (excluding pay rises for promotions) and instead wants to offer an 18% pay rise. He claims it is needed to recognise teachers (presumably as teachers) and get new ones to fll staff shortages. (I am not sure how there will be staff shortages if the students are flocking to private schools).
Seems to me that the only emergency is the threat of rolling back the culture war waged on students in North Carolina by anti-human left wing radicals over decades.
So, the State of Emergency is a reaction to losing ground in the culture war being waged against students.
Here is how North Carolina is ranked across the 50 States in 2018 prior to the pandemic.
From here: How does North Carolina rank for education? - Triangle Business Journal (bizjournals.com)
“North Carolina was rated to have the 32nd best K-12 public school system in the nation, based on quality and safety. The quality rating was based on metrics including high school graduation rate, math and reading scores, median SAT and ACT scores, and the pupil-teacher ratio.”
And here: How does North Carolina rank for education? - Triangle Business Journal (bizjournals.com)
Seems like the State of Emergency is at least five years too late.
Onwards!
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Gov Cooper is a partisan hack who allowed himself to be controlled by the NAACP and the “teacher’s union” (NCAE) that less than 20% of NC teachers belong to.
Bottomline: given the paucity of “acceptable” (not RFK Jr) Dem candidates for POTUS, Cooper is pandering to black and teacher voters to try to showcase himself as a plausible alternative to the highly corrupt vegetable-in-chief.
I’m sure GOVt Cooper locked down or mandate didn’t hurt his FREE GOVt school indoctrination https://governor.nc.gov/news/governor-cooper-issues-executive-order-closing-k-12-public-schools-and-banning-gatherings-more