{"id":8212,"date":"2017-02-20T21:56:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T03:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8212"},"modified":"2017-02-20T21:56:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T03:56:08","slug":"is-north-carolina-the-most-toxic-state-in-the-union-ctd-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/02\/20\/is-north-carolina-the-most-toxic-state-in-the-union-ctd-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Is North Carolina the most Toxic State in the Union?, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wearencae\/posts\/1314421608619633\" target=\"_blank\">sends an update<\/a> on teacher pay in the <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/06\/17\/is-north-carolina-the-most-toxic-state-in-the-union-ctd-7\/\" target=\"_blank\">benighted state<\/a> of North Carolina:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gov. Roy Cooper proposes a major, multi-year investment in North Carolina teachers. 5% average raise this year and next year. Under his plan, NC would rank best in the Southeast in 3 years and reach at least the national average in 5 years. He also proposes a teacher supply stipend to be paid directly to the teacher at the start of the school year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like Governor Cooper didn&#8217;t get the memo about throwing the teachers under the bus. How will he finance it? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/news\/local\/education\/article133866519.html\" target=\"_blank\">According<\/a> to <em><strong>The Charlotte Observer<\/strong><\/em>, some promised tax cuts may not occur, but given GOP dominance in the legislature, that will be a tussle, so Cooper is hoping to bring in some unusual allies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m going to be asking the business community to go the General Assembly and say, \u2018Don\u2019t cut the corporate tax rate again. Instead, raise teacher pay,\u2019 \u201d Cooper said at a January gathering of education advocates in Raleigh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I expect the smart businesses will work with him on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader sends an update on teacher pay in the benighted state of North Carolina: Gov. Roy Cooper proposes a major, multi-year investment in North Carolina teachers. 5% average raise this year and next year. Under his plan, NC would rank best in the Southeast in 3 years and reach \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/02\/20\/is-north-carolina-the-most-toxic-state-in-the-union-ctd-22\/\"> 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-8212","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\/8212","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=8212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8214,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8212\/revisions\/8214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}