{"id":1308,"date":"2015-06-17T08:22:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T13:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2018-03-29T14:41:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T19:41:20","slug":"is-north-carolina-the-most-toxic-state-in-the-union-ctd-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/06\/17\/is-north-carolina-the-most-toxic-state-in-the-union-ctd-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Is North Carolina the most Toxic State in the Union?, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems the North Carolina legislature is still failing to give its teachers any <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/06\/15\/is-north-carolina-the-most-toxic-state-in-the-union-ctd-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">love<\/a>, as we can see by this <a href=\"http:\/\/view.email.nea.org\/?j=fe91107076620d7f73&amp;m=fe8e1570726302797d&amp;ls=fdfa15767062077e72147675&amp;l=fef31075706c02&amp;s=fe6217707c660c7a7514&amp;jb=ff981576&amp;ju=fe5a12767365047f7d1c&amp;r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contribution<\/a> from a North Carolina educator:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The N.C. Senate this evening started rolling out portions of its proposed budget, however we are still awaiting some of the details. Here is what we know right now.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Senate proposal will not make a dent in our dismal per-pupil spending and average teacher pay national rankings.<\/li>\n<li>Students and schools will be heavily impacted by the decimation of the state&#8217;s teacher assistants. According to reports, the Senate plans to cut more than 13,000 teacher assistants over two years. So much for the Senate&#8217;s job creation budget!<\/li>\n<li>Once again the Senate is shortchanging experienced teachers by giving them smaller, or in some cases, the most veteran teachers, no raise. The Senate also did not include restoring master&#8217;s pay as did the House budget.<\/li>\n<li>At a time when we are at the bottom of the heap in education, Senators used a $400 million surplus for the Rainy Day Fund instead of investing in education.<\/li>\n<li>Only $29 million in additional funding for textbooks and digital resources, the lowest of the three budget proposals.<\/li>\n<li>The Senate did include a proposal to reduce class size, but we are still trying to crunch the numbers and understand what it really will mean for schools.<\/li>\n<li>$6.8 million for private school vouchers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Quite the dismal proposal.\u00a0 I wonder how many of the <del>legislatures<\/del> legislators have children in the school system?<\/p>\n<p>(Updated to insert a missing word. And again..)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems the North Carolina legislature is still failing to give its teachers any love, as we can see by this contribution from a North Carolina educator: The N.C. Senate this evening started rolling out portions of its proposed budget, however we are still awaiting some of the details. Here \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/06\/17\/is-north-carolina-the-most-toxic-state-in-the-union-ctd-7\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15024,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/15024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}